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What the Living Do

What the Living Do

by Marie Howe
What the Living Do
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What the Living Do

What the Living Do

by Marie Howe

Overview

"A deeply beautiful book, with the fierce galloping pace of a great novel."—Liz Rosenberg 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).

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393318869
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 04/17/1999
Pages: 96
Sales rank: 219,327
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Marie Howe is the former poet laureate of New York. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets, she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

The Boy
Sixth Grade
The Fort
From My Father's Side of the Bed
Buying the Baby
Practicing
The Mother
In the Movies
The Attic
Beth
The Fruit Cellar
The Copper Beech
The Game
The Girl
The Dream
For Three Days
Just Now
A Certain Light
How Some of It Happened
Rochester, New York, July
The Last Time
Without Music
Pain
Faulkner
The Promise
The Cold Outside
The Grave
The Gate
One of the Last Days
Late Morning
Wanting a Child
Tulips
Watching Television
The Dream
More
Separation
The Bird
Prayer
Two or Three Times
Reunion
The Kiss
Yesterday
Memorial
My Dead Friends
The Visit
The New Life
What the Living Do
Buddy
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