What the Living Do: Poems

by Howe, Marie

• ISBN13: 9780393318869
• ISBN10: 0393318869
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-17
• 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	p. 15
Sixth Grade	p. 16
The Fort	p. 18
From My Father's Side of the Bed	p. 20
Buying the Baby	p. 21
Practicing	p. 23
The Mother	p. 25
In the Movies	p. 26
The Attic	p. 28
Beth	p. 30
The Fruit Cellar	p. 32
The Copper Beech	p. 34
The Game	p. 35
The Girl	p. 37
The Dream	p. 38
For Three Days	p. 41
Just Now	p. 43
A Certain Light	p. 44
How Some of It Happened	p. 46
Rochester, New York, July 1989	p. 48
The Last Time	p. 50
Without Music	p. 51
Pain	p. 52
Faulkner	p. 53
The Promise	p. 54
The Cold Outside	p. 55
The Grave	p. 56
The Gate	p. 58
One of the Last Days	p. 59
Late Morning	p. 63
Wanting a Child	p. 64
Tulips	p. 65
Watching Television	p. 66
The Dream	p. 68
More	p. 69
Separation	p. 70
The Bird	p. 71
Prayer	p. 73
Two or Three Times	p. 75
Reunion	p. 76
The Kiss	p. 77
Yesterday	p. 79
Memorial	p. 80
My Dead Friends	p. 84
The Visit	p. 85
The New Life	p. 86
What the Living Do	p. 89
Buddy	p. 91
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