The Good Thief

by Marie Howe

Book Overview

The heralded debut collection of poems by the author of What the Living Do (Norton, 1997). Selected by Margaret Atwood as a winner in the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, this unique collection was the first sounding of a deeply authentic voice. Howe's early writings concern relationship, attachment, and loss, in a highly original search for personal transcendence. Many of the thirty-four poems in The Good Thief appeared in such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892551275
• ISBN13: 9780892551279
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Persea Books
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

a true mystic

I've read many books of contemporary poetry and few have excited, frightened and compelled me to keep reading the way this one did. Marie Howe is a true mystic and everything she writes feels as if taken down, as if she is listening to a voice only she can hear, a voice that has everything to tell us about our lives.

Guess what? A 20th c religious poet!

Sparse, beautiful writing--the theme of redemption is potent in nearly every poem--everyone must read this!!!

C'est si bon!

"What the angels left" is clever while "Death,the last visit" is so touching and puts forth a new idea of death.At the beginning of her career she really began with a bang.

Brilliant, heart breaking, luminous, passionate!

This book changed my life! Read it. Buy it. Read it. Your life will be transformed