Magdalene: Poems

ôGorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.öùMichael Cunningham Magdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscapeùhailing a cab, raising a child, listening to news on the radio. Between facing the traumas of 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.

• | Author: Marie Howe
• | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• | Publication Date: Aug 28, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 96 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0393356035
• | ISBN-13: 9780393356038