New and Selected Poems
by Marie Howe · 2024
Buy on AmazonOne of NPR’s “Books We Love in 2024” and a California Review of Books Best Poetry of the Year Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature “[This book] makes a concise case for Howe's status as an essential poet.” —Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR An indispensable collection of more than four decades of profound, luminous poetry from acclaimed poet Marie Howe. Characterized by “a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions” (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe’s poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles.…
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"In her first retrospective collection, one of the year’s essential books of poetry, Marie Howe writes vividly about life’s big questions and their nonanswers: What are we here for? What does it mean to do good? What have we done to the environment? What are the consequences and what do we who are here now owe to those who will follow us? And yet her tone and straightforward delivery make her poems as approachable as friends."
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"This collection of poems, exploring themes of love, loss, and the sacred in the everyday, fits Maria Popova's interest in profound, life-affirming literature. It aligns with her work on finding meaning and beauty in human experience."
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