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  • What the Living Do

    Poems

    by Marie Howe ...
    "A deeply beautiful book, with the fierce galloping pace of a great novel."—Liz Rosenberg Boston GlobeInformed 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, ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

    Poems

    by Marie Howe ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.”—Elizabeth BergHurrying 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 ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Magdalene

    Poems

    by Marie Howe ...
    “Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”—Michael CunninghamMagdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape—hailing 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 ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • New and Selected Poems

    by Marie Howe ...
    **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryWinner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in LiteratureOne of NPR’s "Books We Love in 2024" and a California Review of Books Best Poetry of the Year"[This book] makes a concise case for Howe's status as an essential poet." —Craig Morgan Teicher, NPRAn indispensable collection of more than four decades of profound, luminous poetry from ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Easy Math

    Witty poems that are “full of vim and vinegar . . . Remember when we all got out of school for the fire alarm? This is even better” (Dean Young).Selected by Marie Howe for the 2011 Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Easy Math is anxious and exuberant both. Lauren Shapiro’s poems are Aesop stood on end, wry fables that defy our instinct to find a moral to the story. Instead, she offers us a gimlet eye to the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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    What the Living Do

    Poems

    by Marie Howe ...
    Narrated by Marie Howe ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 26 min

    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Lighthead

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    Series series Penguin Poets
    Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for PoetryWatch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is ... Read more

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