The Good Thief: Poems (National Poetry Series)
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Book Overview
The heralded debut collection of poems by the author of What the Living Do (Norton, 1997). Selected by Margaret Atwood as a winner in the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, this unique collection was the first sounding of a deeply authentic voice. Howe's early writings concern relationship, attachment, and loss, in a highly original search for personal transcendence. Many of the thirty-four poems in The Good Thief appeared in such prestigious journals and periodicals as The Atlantic, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Agni Review, and The Partisan Review.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0892551275
ISBN13:9780892551279
Release Date:January 1988
Publisher:Persea Books
Length:54 Pages
Weight:0.26 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 5.2" x 8.7"
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a true mystic
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I've read many books of contemporary poetry and few have excited, frightened and compelled me to keep reading the way this one did. Marie Howe is a true mystic and everything she writes feels as if taken down, as if she is listening to a voice only she can hear, a voice that has everything to tell us about our lives.
Guess what? A 20th c religious poet!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Sparse, beautiful writing--the theme of redemption is potent in nearly every poem--everyone must read this!!!
C'est si bon!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
"What the angels left" is clever while "Death,the last visit" is so touching and puts forth a new idea of death.At the beginning of her career she really began with a bang.
Brilliant, heart breaking, luminous, passionate!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
This book changed my life! Read it. Buy it. Read it. Your life will be transformed
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