Magdalene : : Poems

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Call Number: 811.54 Ho
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Before the beginning -- Magdalene-the seven devils -- On men, their bodies -- How the story started -- Thorns -- The affliction -- The split -- What I did wrong -- Magdalene on romance -- Magdalene: the addict -- Magdalene and the interior life -- The landing -- Magdalene: the woman taken in adultery -- Magdalene, the next day -- The teacher -- The disciples -- Magdalene on Gethsemane -- Calvary -- Magdalene afterwards -- Low tide, late august -- The adoption: when the girl arrived -- The girl at 3 -- Magdalene on surrender -- The anima alone -- The news -- Christmas eve -- Listening -- Waiting at the river -- The teacher -- Conversation:dualism -- Walking home -- Magdalene: his dream of integration -- Fourteen -- After the funeral -- Adaptation -- The map -- The visit -- Two animals -- October -- Delivery -- Magdalene at the grave -- What the silence says -- Magdalene at the theopoetics conference -- One day.
Magdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape―hailing 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.

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Raw and tender submitted by Tina Mahler on August 10, 2020, 8:52am I checked this collection of poems out after reading about it in Oprah’s list of recommendations. I don’t usually read poetry. The style took some getting used to, but once I was able to get into the flow of the poems within the context of the whole book, I found many to be intense and poignant. The ones reflecting the mother daughter relationship really touched me.