The Hours - Matthew J. Andrews

Drawing inspiration from monastic patterns of liturgical prayer and the book of Psalms, The Hours is a deeply personal collection that meditates on the breadth of the human experience: the splendor of sunrise, the trepidation of evening, and the long periods of darkness and light that fall between them. With feet planted firmly on the ground but eyes raised skyward, these poems explore the transcendent and the ordinary, the sacred and the profane, and find at the core of everything a "body bent at each clanging bell."