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poet Marie Howe
Zen Luminaries: New & Selected Poems: A Visit with Poet Marie Howe
Marie Howe’s poetry shines with a kind of clear and beautiful light of the ordinary. She somehow captures the simple yet eternal and graceful moment: Sitting with a dying brother, rushing on errands with a daughter, letting in the whining dog late at night. In Howe’s poetry these are opportunities for us to awaken to our true humanity.
Zen Luminaries: New & Selected Poems: A Visit with Poet Marie Howe
Marie Howe’s poetry shines with a kind of clear and beautiful light of the ordinary. She somehow captures the simple yet eternal and graceful moment: Sitting with a dying brother, rushing on errands with a daughter, letting in the whining dog late at night. In Howe’s poetry these are opportunities for us to awaken to our true humanity.
Following the Scent of Flowers
There’s a spaciousness inside all situations. We’re walking through them, and underneath our feet there’s space and light, and around us. And we’re walking through that space and light. That, then, is the source of empathy and love. And we accompany each other—and we don’t have to take ourselves or each other so seriously.