On retirement : 75 poems / edited by Robin Chapman & Judith Strasser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chapman, Robin S.

Strasser, Judith, 1944-

Language:

English

Swedish

Vietnamese

Subjects (All):

Retirement--Poetry.

Retirement.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xii, 108 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2007]

Summary:

This superb collection includes poems by men and women ranging in age from their fifties to their eighties and hailing from different cities, regions, and countries. However we contemplate retirement, this volume will illuminate the careful thoughts of those who have faced these questions before us.

Contents:

Doug Anderson Sixty-One 1

/ Werner Aspenstrom Who Is Not a Child 2

/ John Balaban Eliseo's Cabin, Taos Pueblo 3

/ Meg Barden Reaching Eighty 4

/ Elinor Benedict Bamboo 5

/ George Bilgere Unwise Purchases 6

/ Chana Bloch The Sixth Age 8

/ Philip Booth Pairs 9

/ Jonathan Bracker Wait-Time Is Currently about Twelve Minutes 11

/ John Brandi [thinking of retirement] 12

/ Bill Brown Waking 13

/ Charles Cantrell Retirement Matters 14

/ Hayden Carruth At Seventy-Five: Rereading an Old Book 15

/ Grace Cavalieri In the Pinecrest Rest Home 16

/ Thomas Centolella Some Little Happiness 17

/ Robin Chapman The Inspector of Snowstorms 18

/ Kelly Cherry God and Goddess 19

/ Lucille Clifton Climbing 20

/ Stephanie Kaplan Cohen A Visitation 21

/ Ruth Daigon To the Woman Who Left Her Old Age to Someone Older than She Will Ever Be 23

/ Martha L. Deed Rest Cure 24

/ Marcia Denius On His Early Retirement 25

/ Mary L. Downs Flu Clinic at the Retirement Center 27

/ Stephen Dunn The Carpenter's Song 28

/ Susan Elbe Brooding over the Body 30

/ R. Virgil Ellis Heading towards Porty 32

/ Diane Glancy No Clomping Straightforward Narrative: There Is an Abstraction in Aging Only Abstraction Can Relay 33

/ Sam Hamill The Orchid Flower 34

/ Jim Hanlen Retirement 35

/ Albert Huffstickler The Work Place 36

/ Benjamin Husted Last Minute Instructions 37

/ Mark Irwin Mansion of Happiness 38

/ Ruth Harriet Jacobs Assorted Hobbies 39

/ Jesse Lee Kercheval Hani and the Moon 40

/ Carolyn Kizer Parents' Pantoum 42

/ Klipschutz Office 44

/ Ted Kooser Applesauce 46

/ Ellen Kort One by One 47

/ Maxine Kumin Women and Horses 48

/ Denise Levertov Living Alone (III) 49

/ Sandra Lindow The Physicist's Warning 50

/ Arlene L. Mandell All Dressed Up 51

/ Lenore Mayhew Almost Eighty 52

/ Jeri McCormick Bureaucrat Tells How 53

/ Wesley McNair Old Guys 55

/ Ann McNeal Walking Out 57

/ Robin O. Metz Father of the Bride 58

/ Johnes K. Moore Deadwood 60

/ Richard Moore On Coming to Nothing 61

/ Ruth Moose The Crossing 62

/ Edith Nash Marriage 63

/ Nguyen Binh Khiem Retirement 64

/ Naomi Shihab Nye Open House 64

/ Ed Ochester Anna Bachtle 66

/ Alicia Ostriker Fifty 67

/ Grace Paley Here 69

/ Rebecca Parfitt After the Ultrasound 70

/ Molly Peacock Drawing for Absolute Beginners 71

/ Roger Pfingston Retired 72

/ Ronald Pies The Neurology Professor Retires 73

/ Robert Pinsky The Cold 74

/ Carol Potter Comfort Zone 76

/ Hilda Raz Letter of Transmittal 77

/ Ishmael Reed The South Berkeley Branch Closes 78

/ Francine Ringold Luke Like Life 80

/ Alberto Rios The Conversation of Old Husbands 81

/ Elisavietta Ritchie Report from the Stratosphere 82

/ Claudette Mork Sigg Barre Exercises 83

/ William Stafford You Reading This, Be Ready 84

/ Gerald Stern This Was a Wonderful Night 85

/ Judith Strasser Now I'm Retired, I Have Time 87

/ Bruce Taylor Wednesday, the Hole 88

/ Marilyn L. Taylor Aunt Eudora's Harlequin Romance 89

/ Donna Wahlert A Three-Year-Old Visits 90

/ Ronald Wallace Blessings 91.

Notes:

Includes index.

One translated from Swedish; one translated from Vietnamese.

ISBN:

158729527X

9781587295270

OCLC:

84841109