Broken symmetry / Jack Ridl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ridl, Jack.

Series:

Made in Michigan writers series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

ix, 122 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2006]

Contents:

Broken Symmetry 1

I Fractals

The History of the Pencil 5

This Is Another Reason to Write a Poem 8

Against Elegies 10

Rainbow 11

Framing the Morning 13

After Reading Dom John Chapman, Benedictine Abbot 14

Learning from Old Houses 16

Last Chores of Fall 18

Fractals 20

Fragments from the Early Morning 22

The Last Thing 23

This Was My Real Life 24

Waiting with William Stafford in an Oregon Airport 26

Toys in the Attic 28

St. Francis in Disney World 30

The Crank Collector 31

That's Enough 33

The Mail Carrier 34

Tinnitus 36

Out in the Fields with the Dogs a Week before Christmas 38

The Materialism of Angels 40

II Quantum Theory

I Am Wearing Your Shirt 44

Worn Morning 48

When I Was Conceived 50

What Then 52

Forgetting How to Sleep 54

The Remote 56

The Ace of Spades 59

Sorting through the Records 60

February Is No Month to Move 62

During the Last Two Weeks of His Life, He Wrote Only the Last Lines of Poems 63

Waking Up in a Cold Sweat 65

Hands 67

Tabula Rasa 69

The Salt and Pepper Collector 71

The Sculptor of TV 73

The Time between Mornings 74

Traveling Back 75

Selling the House 76

Evensong 78

Still Here 79

III Differential Equations

Aubade for This Morning 83

On Our Dog's Birthday 84

Flying in over Key West 86

Divine Women: The Woodblocks of Utamaro 87

The Rain on the Burren 88

Walking the Creek with Dogs 92

Setting out the Puzzle Pieces 94

The Gardeners 96

My Father Gardening in Heaven 97

Raking Leaves with the Gods in July 98

A Few Days before Another Memorial Day Weekend 100

Knowing Now You'll Never Be a Clown 102

Repairing the House 104

Sisley's "Snow at Louveciennes" 106

Instead of Vacationing in Maine 107

The Comforting 109

The Drywallers Listen to Sinatra while They Work 110

What We Do 112

Waiting on the Beatitudes 113

The Man Who Wanted to Change the World 114

Burying the Poems 116

Keeping On 117

Living in the Twenty-First Century 118.

ISBN:

0814333222

OCLC:

62533928

Publisher Number:

9780814333228