New and Selected Poems
Four decades in one volume, from the AIDS elegies through the late poems about ecology and God. The plainness is deceptive, and it holds up read aloud.
Four decades of Howe in one volume, from the AIDS elegies of What the Living Do through the late poems about ecology and God. It won the Pulitzer Prize. Her plainness is deceptive: the poems are built to be said aloud, and they hold up under it.
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Maria Popova
This is why I’ll take, over all the world’s philosophy combined, Marie Howe’s spare and stunning poem “The Maples,” found in her New and Selected Poems (public library) — that benediction of a book that won her the Pulitzer Prize
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