{"id":2425,"date":"2021-05-30T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T15:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2025-06-30T19:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:22:40","slug":"magdalene-the-seven-veils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/magdalene-the-seven-veils\/","title":{"rendered":"Magdalene\u2014The Seven Veils"},"content":{"rendered":"

Magdalene\u2014The Seven Veils<\/a><\/p>\n

Marie Howe<\/em><\/p>\n

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what it means<\/h3>\n

Mary Magdalene, the prostitute in the Bible that Jesus embraced as one of his disciples, is explaining the devils in her. The devils are the types of things that happen to us all\u2014worry, compulsion, fear that no one would understand you.<\/p>\n

We are all plagued by devils.<\/p>\n

Mary Magdalene is not so different from any of us.<\/p>\n

why I like it<\/h3>\n

Don\u2019t you love the idea of busyness as a devil? And of course, worry.\u00a0\u00a0She had me right there.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I can\u2019t say Howe is my new favorite poet because I\u2019ve been reading and loving her work since I read her book\u00a0What the Living Do<\/em>\u00a0some time in the late nineties.\u00a0\u00a0But Howe is certainly my current role model because she does in this book exactly what I\u2019m trying to do in my new book\u2014retell a Biblical story in poetry with lots of modern references thrown in.\u00a0\u00a0I find this poem funny, conversational, and giving me new insights into what a devil is and how it works in your life.<\/p>\n

craft<\/h3>\n

I like how this poem sets up the context in the title and epigram and then jumps right in.\u00a0\u00a0This taking a Biblical figure and mixing in modern day stuff as though that woman is living right here in our world\u2014that is exactly what I\u2019m trying to do in my work, so it gives me great permission to see her doing it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m fascinated by how she revisits the seven devils, but they keep changing.\u00a0\u00a0It would have never occurred to me to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Magdalene\u2014The Seven Veils Marie Howe what it means Mary Magdalene, the prostitute in the Bible that Jesus embraced as one of his disciples, is explaining the devils in her. The devils are the types of things that happen to us all\u2014worry, compulsion, fear that no one would understand you. We are all plagued by devils….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}