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The kingdom of ordinary time / Marie Howe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 68 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0393041999
  • 0393337340
  • 9780393041996
  • 9780393337341
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Contents:
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)
Summary: 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?
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 811.6 H857 Available 33111007047612
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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?

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