What the Living Do Poems

by Howe, Marie

• ISBN13: 9780393045604
• ISBN10: 0393045609
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

What the Living Do . . . is a deeply beautiful book, with the fierce galloping pace of a great novel. - Boston Globe

Table of Contents

The Boy	15	(1)
Sixth Grade	16	(2)
The Fort	18	(2)
From My Father's Side of the Bed	20	(1)
Buying the Baby	21	(2)
Practicing	23	(2)
The Mother	25	(1)
In the Movies	26	(2)
The Attic	28	(2)
Beth	30	(2)
The Fruit Cellar	32	(2)
The Copper Beech	34	(1)
The Game	35	(2)
The Girl	37	(1)
The Dream	38	(3)
For Three Days	41	(2)
Just Now	43	(1)
A Certain Light	44	(2)
How Some of It Happened	46	(2)
Rochester, New York, July 1989	48	(2)
The Last Time	50	(1)
Without Music	51	(1)
Pain	52	(1)
Faulkner	53	(1)
The Promise	54	(1)
The Cold Outside	55	(1)
The Grave	56	(2)
The Gate	58	(1)
One of the Last Days	59	(4)
Late Morning	63	(1)
Wanting a Child	64	(1)
Tulips	65	(1)
Watching Television	66	(2)
The Dream	68	(1)
More	69	(1)
Separation	70	(1)
The Bird	71	(2)
Prayer	73	(2)
Two or Three Times	75	(1)
Reunion	76	(1)
The Kiss	77	(2)
Yesterday	79	(1)
Memorial	80	(4)
My Dead Friends	84	(1)
The Visit	85	(1)
The New Life	86	(3)
What the Living Do	89	(2)
Buddy	91