I interviewed her in 2013 at the College of St. She’s just published a new book of poetry, Magdalene. Tippett: Marie Howe teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and is the former poet laureate of New York. I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. She works and plays as wisely as anyone I know, with a Catholic upbringing, the universal drama of family, the ordinary rituals that sustain us - and how language, again and again, has a power to save us. Poetry is her exuberant and open-hearted way into the words and the silences we live by. Krista Tippett, host: When Marie Howe was a little girl, she would spend hours locked away in the bathtub, riveted as she read through the “Lives of the Saints.” She’s best known for her poetry collection What the Living Do about her brother’s death at 28 from AIDS. It’s shared, and everything shared is better. So when it happens to us, we’re not alone.
I’m like, “OK, now read it.” “And then a Plank in Reason, broke, / And I dropped down, and down / And hit a World with every plunge…” She wrote it. “I felt a Funeral in my Brain, / And Mourners, to and fro / Kept treading - treading - till it seemed / That Sense was breaking through.” And my students were all like, “Huh?” I’m like, “Who here has had a panic attack?” And like half the room raised their hand. Marie Howe: Emily dinkinson wrote those amazing poems.
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