Lynne McMahon resists the compromises that come with domestication of heavenly space. Seeking to restore a lost sense of wonder, she creates out of mundane rituals - those concerning marriage and motherhood, in particular - a new affirmation that might be called faith. Things taken for granted are transformed by reflection and observation. Morning is "ordinary and amazing"; a garden shows "tiny knuckles of upturning life." "And at the end there will be someplace like this, white pillars on a gray porch, ferns and sweet William carpeting the shade."
- ISBN10 0819521337
- ISBN13 9780819521330
- Publish Date 15 February 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher University Press of New England
- Imprint Wesleyan University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 64
- Language English