Graceful, heartfelt poems in a world often anything but "good"

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	• The Good Thief: Poems (National Poetry Series) Marie Howe Persea Books, 1988 - 62 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

C'est si bon!

"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.

Soothing

I went through two bookshelves of poetry at my local bookstore, and two hours later came away with just this one book. I read a poem each night before going to sleep. The writing is intimate and airy, refreshing when life has become too narrow.

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Graceful, heartfelt poems in a world often anything but "good"

Marie Howe's first book of poems, "The Good Thief", is a splendid debut, presenting the maturity, courage and self-awareness that will sustain her role as neccessary reading for years to come. The compassion of her poetry easily puts her in the category of poets, Dorianne Laux and Sharon Olds. Fine examples of how the author achieves such beauty, is seen in "Death, the last visit", "Veteran's Day", "Menses", and others.

In her sophmore collection, the author surpasses the accomplishment of "Thief" with "What The Living Do", a collection of elegies dedicated to her brother, John, who died of AIDS. Over a dozen customer reviews praise her second book, on amazon.com. It is an absolute reward to purchase and revel in both of Marie Howe's collections.

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Guess what? A 20th c religious poet!

Sparse, beautiful writing--the theme of redemption is potent in nearly every poem--everyone must read this!!!

a true mystic

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.

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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.

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