{"title":"Marie Howe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarie Howe\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts deeply reflective poetry that explores themes of loss, memory, and the human experience. Her work, including titles like \u003cem\u003eMagdalene\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWhat the Living Do\u003c\/em\u003e, invites readers into intimate moments of grace and contemplation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the realm of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Howe’s verse connects the personal with the universal, offering poignant insights into the ways we find meaning amid life's challenges. Her writing is marked by clarity, emotion, and a quiet spiritual depth.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"what-the-earth-seemed-to-say-by-marie-howe-9781780377247","title":"What the Earth Seemed to Say","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat the Earth Seemed to Say\u003c\/i\u003e gathers together 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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e), Marie Howe's poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis essential volume draws from each of her four previous collections, including \u003ci\u003eMagdalene\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), a spiritual and sensual exploration of contemporary womanhood, and \u003ci\u003eWhat the Living Do\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), a haunting chronicle of personal loss, and contains 20 new poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47342095401196,"sku":"9781780377247","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24558883482821.jpg?v=1772194837"},{"product_id":"magdalene-by-marie-howe-9780393356038","title":"Magdalene","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagdalene\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBetween facing the traumas of her past and navigating daily life, the narrator of \u003ci\u003eMagdalene\u003c\/i\u003e yearns for the guidance of her spiritual teacher, a Christ figure, whose death she continues to grieve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErotic, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47536756556012,"sku":"9780393356038","price":28.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6c16a75b0c06c4e400274d86b0b17d34.jpg?v=1776904475"},{"product_id":"what-the-living-do-by-marie-howe-9780393318869","title":"What the Living Do","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInformed 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. \u003cem\u003eWhat the Living Do\u003c\/em\u003e 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\" (\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47601320853740,"sku":"9780393318869","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2ba1c703037a7cd5792da24952fd7406.jpg?v=1778018139"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/marie-howe.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}