The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
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Author: Marie Howe ISBN: 9780393346985
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: September 8, 2009
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Marie Howe
ISBN: 9780393346985
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: September 8, 2009
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.”—Elizabeth Berg

Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of heaven? And how does one live in Ordinary Time—during those periods that are not apparently miraculous?

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Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.”—Elizabeth Berg

Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of heaven? And how does one live in Ordinary Time—during those periods that are not apparently miraculous?

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