The Kingdom of Ordinary Time Poems Author:Marie Howe Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: ?Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.??Elizabeth BergHurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the dif... more »ference 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? .« less