We Give Birth to Light: Poems Madeline Howard ISBN13: 9781260120974

ISBN13: 9781260120974

trapped in a space between reality and dreams

ISBN10: 0765378264

he teaches at the University of Michigan

The first of its kind

We Give Birth to Light: Poems Madeline Howard ISBN13: 9781260120974An often dark and brooding debut, We Give Birth to Light explores love and loss, sickness and death, hope and light. The collection is permeated with Weltschmerz, a sense of melancholy and world weariness. In poems like "The Poetry of My Final Days," the speaker insists there is "nothing left to be tired of," and, in "The Stain," the speaker realizes not only "what we had lost," but "the nothing we had gained." In "For a Time," a husband watches his