Status
Available
Genres
Publication
W. W. Norton & Company (1999), Edition: 3/18/99, 96 pages
Description
Informed 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).
User reviews
LibraryThing member Robert.Zimmermann
I'm just going to make this short. This is one of my all-time favorite books of poetry. This was my second time reading it and it was just as amazing this time through. I hope I can one day get my poetry to be as powerful as Howe's
LibraryThing member lynnwords
Happy to add this to my collection of books. This one is really spectacular in giving a peek inside the grieving mind.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
96 p.; 5.5 inches
ISBN
0393318869 / 9780393318869
Local notes
poetry