Ordinary Time

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“In this edgy debut collection, Ordinary Time, Kathleen Wedl, cuts across our sensibilities as her caustic “Anti-Muse” plagues her with doubt and regrets that are “Washed Away.” Strongly affected by her Catholic upbringing reflected in the poems, “Six Finches,” “Telling” and “Childhood,” she acknowledges that early influences “may take more than one lifetime to weigh Catechism against cataclysm.” All this is countered by love poems and tender memories of family and growing up, as in, “My Mother’s Hair,” and she leaves final instructions to celebrate her life. “Parade me with a jazz band–pigs in tutus, family clowns.” Summing up her life, Wedl writes, “I’m from bean fields, five and dime, nuts and bolts and convent school.” In these intimate poems, Wedl shares her legacy with a command of poetic imagery that tosses and tumbles across pages”–Provided by publisher.