Magdalene Poems Author:Marie Howe ?Marie Howe?s poetry is luminous, intense, and eloquent, rooted in an abundant inner life.??Stanely KunitzMagdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape? hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to the news on the radio. Between facing the traumas of ... more »her past and navigating daily life, the narrator of Magdalene yearns for the guidance of her spiritual teacher, a Christ figure, whose death she continues to grieve. Erotic, spirited, and searching for meaning, she is a woman striving to be the subject of her own life, fully human and alive to the sacred in the mortal world.FROM ?BEFORE THE BEGINNING?
Was I ever virgin?
Did someone touch me before I could speak?
Who had me before I knew I was an I?
So that I wanted that touch again and again
Without knowing why or who or from whence it came?« less