Marie Howe

Happy to add this to my collection of books. This one is really spectacular in giving a peek inside the grieving mind.

Marie Howe never disappoints. Such a joy to read. I read On Men, Their Bodies to Christine and Cyndi on the porch with wine Tuesday night.

I found Marie Howe’s book to be very moving and surprisingly spicy. Some of the poems are her “famous” ones that I have heard many times, but I feel like I really understand her mind better and have even greater respect for her having read the collection as a whole. It’s really cohesive and gave me a powerful meditation on grief and longing, for the heart as much as the mind. I definitely treasure these poems.

I read this in a room in the dunes of Provincetown---she read to a group of us and was gorgeous and we were friends for awhile. I hate to make things personal, but there I go.