books 2015: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems, by Marie Howe

[supercheesegirl]

According to Goodreads, I read this back in 2010. Other than a few poems towards the end, I didn't remember it, but I did note in my 2010 review that "the whole book went by very quickly" so maybe that's why. Anyway, I was looking for poetry that would really move me; I've been reading a lot of poetry lately but it's not necessarily getting to my heart, and I thought this might since there's some motherhood in there. (Maybe the problem is that I'm reading poetry before bed and I'm just too tired? But before bed used to be a good creative time for my writing, so I don't know.) Anyway, the few poems toward the end sung for me, like they apparently did before, but again this went by pretty quickly but enjoyably.

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[bulleteyes.livejournal.com]

When Jess was in her youngest years I often had to read things more than once and/or in different times of the day. The good pieces always benefited from the extra time as I knew they would. I was surprised that the pieces I thought not so good also began opening up for me. Not always as a complete unit but often a few words or a phrase took on a much different cast and I appreciated it more.