The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems
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...
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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?
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780393346985 (0393346986)
Publish date: September 8th 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
I found a lot to love here. Definitely want to read more by this author.Favorites:Prayer: "My days and nights pour through me like complaints / and become a story I forgot to tell."Courage: "What happens is that when you get older you / get braver. / Then he pauses and looks at me, Are you brave?"No...
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