What the Living Do: Poems by Marie Howe

What the Living Do: Poems

Marie Howe

91 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction poetry emotional reflective medium-paced

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Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex and sorrow and joy, boys and girls growing into men and women, stories of a brother who in his dying could teach how to be most alive. What the Livin...

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Moods

emotional 90%
reflective 87%
sad 77%
dark 38%
hopeful 29%
challenging 22%
inspiring 6%
tense 6%
adventurous 3%
funny 3%

Pace

medium 60%
fast 28%
slow 12%

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