The arrow of time / Bruce Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, Bruce, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--20th century.

Canadian poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (114 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, British Columbia : Ronsdale Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Time touches everything, and in doing so changes everything. The Arrow of Time examines the challenges, transformations and surprises wrought by change, and celebrates the ways we attempt to measure our lives against this invisible force. From John Constable's home at East Bergholt to the shattered streets of Nanking, China, in 1937, Meyer offers a fresh and lyrically commanding statement of the impact that time, death and love have on our determination to hold on to life. For Meyer, time is not merely a matter of minutes, days, or years, but the process of alteration and change that inhabits all things. In his poetry Meyer evokes how the introduction of a random element -- love, beauty, or desire -- changes the flow of events, how time can stand still at certain moments, and how we gain small victories by celebrating what we live for.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; CONTENTS; Expansion; Young Rembrandt, 1637; Seven Magpies; Masterpieces; The Anatomy of Tea; Crystal Set; Elegy for the Bees; Persian Apples; Explaining Romanticism to My Daughter; Complications; Strawberries; Increase; Turner's Spectacles; Thirst; Marigolds; Adam and Eve; Jigsaw; The Arrow of Time; Hans Memling's "The Donne Triptych"; The Preliminary; The Mathematics of Sunflowers; Cause; Nanking; The Thin Man; The Book of Things; Pieta; The Man in the Street; Mugs; The Czar's Dog; Anjou Pear; The Doorframe fromNotreDamede Reugny; Change; Barber Shop; The Thousand-Year Egg

Rembrandt, Self-Portrait,1660The Passenger; The Birds; The Unicorn Tapestries; Transmigration; Entropy; Miss Otis in The Cloisters; The Harvest; Jam; Baconian Method; Origami Cranes; The Fall; Deer in the Headlights; Time amongst Quince; NOTES TO THE POEMS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Back Cover

Notes:

Poems.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-55380-429-5

1-55380-430-9

OCLC:

907968153