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.
Author: Marie Howe
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/28/2018
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.20h x 6.00w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780393356038
Language: English
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