Magdalene
Subtitle: poems
By: Marie Howe
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9780393285307
Subjects: American poetry
Description: Magdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscapehailing 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 Magdalene 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.
Notes: Various printings.
Table of contents: title: Before the beginning; title: Magdalene-the seven devils; title: On men, their bodies; title: How the story started; title: Thorns; title: The affliction; title: The split; title: What I did wrong; title: Magdalene on romance; title: Magdalene: the addict; title: Magdalene and the interior life; title: The landing; title: Magdalene: the woman taken in adultery; title: Magdalene, the next day; title: The teacher; title: The disciples; title: Magdalene on Gethsemane; title: Calvary; title: Magdalene afterwards; title: Low tide, late august; title: The adoption: when the girl arrived; title: The girl at 3; title: Magdalene on surrender; title: The anima alone; title: The news; title: Christmas eve; title: Listening; title: Waiting at the river; title: The teacher; title: Conversation:dualism; title: Walking home; title: Magdalene: his dream of integration; title: Fourteen; title: After the funeral; title: Adaptation; title: The map; title: The visit; title: Two animals; title: October; title: Delivery; title: Magdalene at the grave; title: What the silence says; title: Magdalene at the theopoetics conference; title: One day.