ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Tuesday, February 27, 1996             TAG: 9602270086
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: C-3  EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
                                             TYPE: NEWS OBIT 

POET, ESSAYIST, EDITOR BARBARA HOWES DIES

Barbara Howes, a poet who was one of five finalists for the National Book Award in poetry last year for ``Collected Poems 1945-1990,'' died Saturday in Bennington, Vt., after a long illness.

Howes, 81, was also a short-story writer, essayist, translator and editor. She wrote eight books of poetry and was a finalist for the poetry award in two earlier years.

In praising her, Robert Richman, poetry editor of The New Criterion, said her ``real calling card'' was her knack for ``extreme-but-just'' metaphors.

- The New York Times

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