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"What Do You Want To Do Now?" Poet Marie Howe on Living in a Violent World
In her newest collection, THE KINGDOM OF ORDINARY TIME (W.W. Norton, 2008), poet Marie Howe contemplates the choices available to us in a violent world.
Her poems raise pragmatic ethical and moral questions about how we respond to and create violence, and she presses these questions in the context of living in the real, day-to-day world of running errands and raising children. Literary producer Elizabeth Austen talks with Howe about what she discovered about her own capacity for violence through writing these poems.
Marie Howe is the author of two previous collections of poetry, THE GOOD THIEF and WHAT THE LIVING DO, and is the co-editor of a book of essays, IN THE COMPANY OF MY SOLITUDE: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic.
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"What Do You Want To Do Now?" Poet Marie Howe on Living in a Violent World
In her newest collection, THE KINGDOM OF ORDINARY TIME (W.W. Norton, 2008), poet Marie Howe contemplates the choices available to us in a violent world.
Her poems raise pragmatic ethical and moral questions about how we respond to and create violence, and she presses these questions in the context of living in the real, day-to-day world of running errands and raising children. Literary producer Elizabeth Austen talks with Howe about what she discovered about her own capacity for violence through writing these poems.
Marie Howe is the author of two previous collections of poetry, THE GOOD THIEF and WHAT THE LIVING DO, and is the co-editor of a book of essays, IN THE COMPANY OF MY SOLITUDE: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic.
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KUOW 94.9, KUOW Presents, Nov. 24, 2008
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