Books by Marie Howe and Complete Book Reviews

What the Living Do: Poems
What the Living Do: Poems
Marie Howe, Author W. W. Norton & Company $21 (91p) ISBN 978-0-393-04560-4
The tentative transformation of agonizing, slow-motion loss into redemption is Howe's signal achievement in this wrenching second collection. Lyrical rhythms and flat, colloquial speech rub up against a not-quite-mock Old Testament rhetoric of the...
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The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
Marie Howe, Author W. W. Norton & Company $23.95 (68p) ISBN 978-0-393-04199-6
SignatureReviewed by Brenda ShaughnessyMarie Howe's books of poetry materialize once a decade and are big news and cause for celebration. Both of her previous collections moved me to tears and have continued to move me. Reading her third is like...
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New and Selected Poems
New and Selected Poems
Marie Howe. Norton, $28 (160p) ISBN 978-1-324-07503-5
Howe’s bountiful fifth collection (after Magdalene) offers a crown of new poems to open selections from her quietly astonishing body of work. These new pieces showcase the poet’s characteristic gifts: unearthing the sacred in the everyday and...
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