The Kingdom of Ordinary Time Paperback by Marie Howe

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2009-08-25)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 80 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780393337341
• Item Weight: 96.39 grams
• Dimensions: 20.83 x 15.75 x 0.61 cm

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “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 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?

About the Author

Marie Howe is the former poet laureate of New York. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets, she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.