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Howe, Marie, 1950-

The kingdom of ordinary time / Marie Howe.

1st ed.

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2008.

68 pages ; 22 cm

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?

American poetry -- 21st century.

Poetry.

Poems.

Prologue -- The world -- The star market -- Reading Ovid -- Would you rather -- After the movie -- Limbo -- Easter -- Marriage -- The tree fort -- Prayer -- Courage -- 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).

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