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 82%
sad 72%
dark 40%
hopeful 30%
challenging 20%
inspiring 7%
funny 5%
tense 5%
adventurous 2%
lighthearted 2%

Pace

medium 51%
slow 24%
fast 24%

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