What the Earth Seemed to Say New & Selected Poems

<p><em>What the Earth Seemed to Say</em> is a powerful collection of more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from one of America's most daring and courageous poets.</p><p>With its 'radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions' (Matthew Zapruder, <em>New York Times Magazine</em>), Marie Howe's poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. This essential volume draws from each of her four previous collections - <em>including Magdalene</em> (2017), a spiritual and sensual exploration of contemporary womanhood, and<em> What the Living Do</em> (1997), a haunting archive of personal loss - and contains more than fifteen new poems. Whether speaking in the voice of the goddess Persephone or thinking about ageing while walking the dog, Howe is 'a light-bearer, an extraordinary poet of our human sorrow and ordinary joy' (Dorianne Laux).</p>