Marie Howe: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time – Award-Winning Poetry Collection

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Norton, paperback

Publication Date: September 01, 2009

Publisher Marketing: 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 apparently unmiraculous periods of everyday trouble and joy?

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