Broken symmetry / Jack Ridl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ridl, Jack.

Series:

Made in Michigan writers series.

Made in Michigan writers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Poetry.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Michigan poet Jack Ridl leads readers into reflective connection with the everyday world in this unique and enjoyable volume. Broken Symmetry is a collection drawn from the experiences of daily life and organized through the context of mathematics. Poet Jack Ridl uses remarkably clear and precise language to express a singular awareness of the world around us. Some of the poems in this volume deal with the universal human experience of loss, others discover a fresh perspective on what is easily overlooked, and many seek the goodness and joy that remain in a challenging world. Poems are grouped into chapters by mathematical themes, suggesting a commonality in these two separate worlds that is often overlooked. The straightforward language and universal subject matter make Broken Symmetry a profound collection of poetry that will appeal to readers of all backgrounds.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Broken Symmetry

I. Fractals

The History of the Pencil

This Is Another Reason to Write a Poem

Against Elegies

Rainbow

Framing the Morning

After Reading Dom John Chapman, Benedictine Abbot

Learning from Old Houses

Last Chores of Fall

Fractals

Fragments from the Early Morning

The Last Thing

This Was My Real Life

Waiting with William Stafford in an Oregon Airport

Toys in the Attic

St. Francis in Disney World

The Crank Collector

That's Enough

The Mail Carrier

Tinnitus

Out in the Fields with the Dogs a Week before Christmas

The Materialism of Angels

II. Quantum Theory

I Am Wearing Your Shirt

Worn Morning

When I Was Conceived

What Then

Forgetting How to Sleep

The Remote

The Ace of Spades

Sorting through the Records

February Is No Month to Move

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

Waking Up in a Cold Sweat

Hands

Tabula Rasa

The Salt and Pepper Collector

The Sculptor of TV

The Time between Mornings

Traveling Back

Selling the House

Evensong

Still Here

III. Differential Equations

Aubade for This Morning

On Our Dog's Birthday

Flying in over Key West

Divine Women: The Woodblocks of Utamaro

The Rain on the Burren

Walking the Creek with Dogs

Setting out the Puzzle Pieces

The Gardeners

My Father Gardening in Heaven

Raking Leaves with the Gods in July

A Few Days before Another Memorial Day Weekend

Knowing Now You'll Never Be a Clown

Repairing the House

Sisley's "Snow at Louveciennes"

Instead of Vacationing in Maine

The Comforting

The Drywallers Listen to Sinatra while They Work

What We Do

Waiting on the Beatitudes

The Man Who Wanted to Change the World

Burying the Poems

Keeping On.

Living in the Twenty-First Century

Acknowledgments

Credits.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780814335208

0814335209

OCLC:

755620321