Magdalene: Poems

Magdalene: Poems

<p><strong>“Marie Howe’s poetry is luminous, intense, and eloquent, rooted in an abundant inner life.”―Stanely Kunitz</strong></p><p><em>Magdalene</em> imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape―hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to news on the radio. Between facing the traumas of her past and navigating daily life, the narrator of <em>Magdalene</em> yearns for the guidance of her spiritual teacher, a Christ figure, whose death she continues to grieve. Erotic, spirited, and searching for meaning, she is a woman striving to be the subject of her own life, fully human and alive to the sacred in the mortal world.</p>