Paperback – 192 pages

One of NPRs Books We Love in 2024 and aCalifornia Review of BooksBest Poetry of the Year
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature

An indispensable collection of more than four decades of profound, luminous poetry from acclaimed poet Marie Howe.

Characterized by a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions (Matthew Zapruder,New York Times Magazine), Marie Howes poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. This essential volume draws from each of Howes four previous collectionsincludingWhat the Living Do(1997), a haunting archive of personal loss, and the National Book AwardlonglistedMagdalene(2017), a spiritual and sensual exploration of contemporary womanhoodand contains twenty new poems. Whether speaking in the voice of the goddess Persephone or thinking about aging while walking the dog, Howe is a light-bearer, an extraordinary poet of our human sorrow and ordinary joy (Dorianne Laux).