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What the Living Do: Poems
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. Over and over again these astonishing poems touch the place where the inner life and the outer world meet, the moments when we realize that we are still living.
What do the living do? They make breakfast, park cars, bury the dead, shovel snow, kmake love, return videos; they suffer and survive and remember and speak. Daring, clearm heartbreaking, provocative, compassionate, these poems tell unforgettable stories of all our lives.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Apr 17th, 1999
- Pages: 96
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.40in - 0.30in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9780393318869
- Categories: • American - General
About the Author
Howe, Marie: - 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.
Praise for this book
Marie Howe's poetry is luminous, intense, eloquent, rooted in abundant inner life.--Stanley Kunitz
The love in this book is tangible and redemptive.-- "Minneapolis Star Tribune"
Her verse is almost unornamented though she manages some great gift of will and expression to convey the sharpest feeling in long, graceful lines that seem to breathe on the page.... Despite the fathomless pain inherent in these poems, Howe never succumbs to sentimentality or self-pity; her tone is passionate yet detached, her vocabulary and imagery evocative, appropriate, and devastating.-- "Memphis Commercial Appeal"
Howe is a truth-teller of the first order. Fearless in presenting unfiltered experiences, she interweaves her simple, economical language into long, subordinated sentences, loose, enjambed couplets that spill compellingly down the page with near-invisible artistry.-- "Providence Sunday Journal"
Marie Howe has reinvented the elegy as a poem for the living, a poem of instruction, how we're educated by grief. Scrupulously attentive, rigorously self-questioning, What the Living Do is an achievement of remarkable power.--Mark Doty
The tentative transformation of agonizing, slow-motion loss into redemption is Howe's signal achievement in this wrenching second collection, which uncovers new potential for the personal poem.-- "Publishers Weekly, starred review"