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What the Living Do

By Howe , Marie

Book information

Publisher
Inc, W. W. Norton & Company;Chadwyck-Healey
ISBN
9780393075908, 0393075907
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
333 kB (340943 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
American poetry--20th century;American poetry;Onli

Description

"A deeply beautiful book, with the fierce galloping pace of a great novel."—Liz Rosenberg Boston GlobeInformed 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. What the Living Do 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" (Boston Globe).

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