What the Earth Seemed to Say: New & Selected Poems by Marie Howe Jackie Morris ’ So writes Leonard Nolens

’ So writes Leonard Nolens in ‘Place and Date’

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Things are never still or static

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What the Earth Seemed to Say: New & Selected Poems by Marie Howe Jackie Morris ’ So writes Leonard NolensWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry 2025 What the Earth Seemed to Say gathers together more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from one of Americas most daring and courageous poets. With its radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howes poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life