“An organ of the soul: liver-red and shaped like a potato bag. With the crucified Mary inside.”

Fanny Howe sent me The Silver Age in 2013 for an issue of The Economy Magazine, an online literary and art journal that ran from 2012 to 2015.

A few days before the issue was set to go live, I emailed Fanny to ask about the status of her piece. Her response: “Thing is, I’ve fallen down a hole.” A few hours later: “Ok. I got out. This is the heart of what I’m working on.”

I had been expecting one, maybe two poems. Instead, I received over a dozen pages that were equal parts poetry, fiction, theology, and translation - i.e., completely Fanny Howe, both in content and generosity.

With Fanny’s passing on July 9, 2025, I wanted to make The Silver Age available as a thing to be held—and remembered—in remembrance.

Anthony Opal
Chicago, 2025

Author: Fanny Howe
Booklet, 26 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: English
ISBN: 979-8-9991646-2-9
Published: July 11, 2025

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