Name: What the Living Do: Poems
Rating: 3.442307692307693 (13 reviews)
ISBN: 9780393318869

Marie Howe

Contemplates the death of a brother and the things that separate the living from the dead and the present from the past.

What the Living Do: Poems

There will be more words about this collection, but for now, all I can say is Marie Howe writes so candidly about life and death that I feel like I’m living and grieving with her. What a gift.

Carmen

Rating will probably change soon.

There will be more words about this collection, but for now, all I can say is Marie Howe writes so candidly about life and death that I feel like I’m living and grieving with her. What a gift.

beth, how some of it happened, watching television, buddy

cheyanne

"—One day it happens: what you have feared all your life,

the unendurably specific, the exact thing.

lina

"—One day it happens: what you have feared all your life,

the unendurably specific, the exact thing.

No matter what you say or do.

This is what my brother said: Here, sit

closer to the bed

so I can see you."

What the Living Do: Poems

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