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“You might think I am just old but I have finally decided to make the decision to never grow up, and remain under my hood.” In this video, Fanny Howe reads from her poetry collection Second Childhood (Graywolf Press, 2014) at the 2014 National Book Awards ceremony. Howe died at the age of eighty-four on July 9, 2025.
Tags: Poetry | Fanny Howe | Second Childhood | National Book Award | reading | Graywolf Press | 2014 | in memoriam
