What the Earth Seemed to Say: New & Selected Poems

di Marie Howe (Autore)

Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2024

What the Earth Seemed to Say is a powerful collection of more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from one of America’s most daring and courageous poets. With its ‘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. This essential volume draws from each of her four previous collections – including Magdalene (2017), a spiritual and sensual exploration of contemporary womanhood, and What the Living Do (1997), a haunting archive of personal loss – and contains more than fifteen new poems. Whether speaking in the voice of the goddess Persephone or thinking about ageing while walking the dog, Howe is ‘a light-bearer, an extraordinary poet of our human sorrow and ordinary joy’ (Dorianne Laux).

• Autore: Marie Howe
• Editore: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 176 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• EAN: 9781780377247

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