What the Living Do - Poems (Paperback, New Ed)

Marie Howe

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"What the Living Do . . . is a deeply beautiful book, with the fierce galloping pace of a great novel." — Boston Globe

Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex and sorrow and joy, boys and girls growing into men and women, stories of a brother who in his dying could teach how to be most alive. What the Living Do reflects "a new form of confessional poetry, one shared to some degree by other women poets such as Sharon Olds and Jane Kenyon. Unlike the earlier confessional poetry of Plath, Lowell, Sexton et al., Howe's writing is not so much a moan or a shriek as a song. It is a genuinely feminine form . . . a poetry of intimacy, witness, honesty, and relation" (Boston Globe).

"Marie Howe's poetry is luminous, intense, eloquent." — Stanley Kunitz
Chosen as one of the five best books of poetry published in l997 by Publishers Weekly.
Howe's first book, The Good Thief, was selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series.

Marie Howe lives and teaches in New York City.

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Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1999
First published:	April 1999
Authors:	Marie Howe
Dimensions:	211 x 140 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	91
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-31886-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-393-31886-9
Barcode:	9780393318869