Marie Howe
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Characterized by "a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions" (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe's poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. This essential volume draws from each of Howe's four previous collections-including What the Living Do (1997), a haunting archive of personal loss, and...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
What do the living do? They make breakfast, shovel snow, make love, bury the dead, suffer and survive and remember and speak. Informed by the death of a beloved brother who in his dying could teach us how to be most alive, these poems touch the place where the inner life and the outer world meet--the moments when we realize that we are still living.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
An anticipated new volume from Marie Howe whose "poetry is luminous, intense, eloquent, rooted in abundant inner life" (Stanley Kunitz). Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of heaven? And how does one live in Ordinary Time- during those periods that...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Magdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscapehailing a cab, raising a child, listening to news on the radio. Between facing the traumas of her past and navigating daily life, the narrator of Magdalene yearns for the guidance of her spiritual teacher, a Christ figure, whose death she continues to grieve. Erotic, spirited, and searching for meaning, she is...
