The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
Subtitle: Poems
Publisher: W. W. Norton; W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: March 10, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780393041996
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; American - General; Poetry / Single Author / American; Poetry
Description: An anticipated new volume from Marie Howe whose "poetry is luminous, intense, eloquent, rooted in abundant inner life" (Stanley Kunitz). 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?