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Magdalene: Poems
“Howe’s gift is to render ordinary moments as bright epiphanies. Magdalene resounds with insight, a book for the ages.” — San Francisco ChronicleMagdalene 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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Magdalene: Poems
“Howe’s gift is to render ordinary moments as bright epiphanies. Magdalene resounds with insight, a book for the ages.” — San Francisco ChronicleMagdalene 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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Magdalene: Poems

Magdalene: Poems

by Marie Howe
Magdalene: Poems

Magdalene: Poems

by Marie Howe

Overview

“Howe’s gift is to render ordinary moments as bright epiphanies. Magdalene resounds with insight, a book for the ages.” — San Francisco ChronicleMagdalene 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393356038
Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Publication date: 08/28/2018
Pages: 96
Sales rank: 154,507
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Marie Howe, former poet laureate of New York, is the author of The Good Thief, What the Living Do, and The Kingdom of Ordinary Time. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.
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