Magdalene: Poems

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ISBN-10: 0393356035
ISBN-13: 9780393356038
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 08/28/2018
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 6.00" W, 0.20" H

Magdalene: Poems

byMarie Howe

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Overview

Magdalene 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 the guidance of her spiritual teacher, a Christ figure, whose death she continues to grieve. Erotic, spirited, and searching for meaning, she is a woman striving to be the subject of her own life, fully human and alive to the sacred in the mortal world.

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Each book of Marie Howe's is a singular accomplishment, but none is as wildly alive as this.... Howe sweeps up a life and fixes it on the page, and stands here before us, the stunned and grateful witness of all that's taken and granted by love and time.–Mark Doty
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Details

ISBN-10: 0393356035
ISBN-13: 9780393356038
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 08/28/2018
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 6.00" W, 0.20" H
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