The kingdom of ordinary time / Marie Howe.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 68 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0393041999
- 0393337340
- 9780393041996
- 9780393337341
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 811.6 H857 | Available | 33111007047612 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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?
Poems.
Prologue -- The world -- The star market -- Reading Ovid -- Would you rather -- After the movie -- Limbo -- Easter -- Marriage -- The tree fort -- Prayer -- Cottage -- Why the novel is necessary but sometimes hard to read -- What we would give up -- Government -- Ordinary time -- Sometimes the moon sat in the well at night -- Once or twice or three times, I saw something -- How you can't move moonlight -- You think this happened only once and long ago -- Annunciation -- My mother's body -- In the course of the last three days -- Questions -- Limbo -- Who -- Non-violence -- Non-violence 2 -- The massacre -- Before the fire -- Fifty -- What the woman said -- New York City, October 2002 -- The man who kept nightingales -- Hurry -- The spell -- The snow storm -- Mary (reprise)
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?