The Kingdom of Ordinary Time

The Kingdom of Ordinary Time

By Marie Howe

Pages

73

Rating

4.08

Year

2008

Description

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book “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 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 apparently unmiraculous periods of everyday trouble and joy?