Rachel Baack
This Pulitzer Prize winning collection by Marie Howe is achingly beautiful. Especially compelling to me were her expression of love for and grief over the loss of her brother, as well as her exploration of faith. My favorite poems in the collection were “The Singularity,” “Gretel from a Sudden Clearing,” “The Attic,” “The Grave,” “One of the Last Days,” “The Star Market,” the third untitled poem from “Poems from the Life of Mary,” “Magdelene—The Seven Devils,” “The Affliction,” and “Magdalene on Gethsemane.”
This Pulitzer Prize winning collection by Marie Howe is achingly beautiful. Especially compelling to me were her expression of love for and grief over the loss of her brother, as well as her exploration of faith. My favorite poems in the collection were “The Singularity,” “Gretel from a Sudden Clearing,” “The Attic,” “The Grave,” “One of the Last Days,” “The Star Market,” the third untitled poem from “Poems from the Life of Mary,” “Magdelene—The Seven Devils,” “The Affliction,” and “Magdalene on Gethsemane.”