The Pendulum Moves Off

Theodore Haddin

Description

From a boy’s first acquaintance with nature and the meaning of time to witnessing climate change and desolating wars, Theodore Haddin’s poems in The Pendulum Moves Off celebrate the lives of humans and Earth’s other animal inhabitants with longing, exuberance, and awakening. Time is in the clock as well as in nature, and our extraction of the natural world diminishes us as well. In truth, “tock and tick” are not forever, but the call of art and music and Haddin’s love of rivers in this beautiful and thought-provoking collection remind us of a better way of life we have yet to discover.

Table of Contents

I

  1 First Moves

  2 Raspberries and Milk

  3 Winter Came

  4 Awakening

  5 Rembrandt’s Wheel Ruts

  6 What’s It Like to Have a Violin

  7 Mockingbird Why Do You

  8 Winter Wash 

10 Grandpa Wears Neckties

11 Sunday Afternoon

12 Lines for Maurice McNamee, SJ

13 Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time

14 Brothers

16 Arvo Pärt Plays from the Radio

17 Where Poetry Goes

18 A Tale

II

21 Prediction 

22 The Boy Fishing

23 A Tall Tale

25 Truth-Telling

26 Broken Heart

27 Fox by the Road

28 Walden: A Glimpse

29 What the Lake Said

30 We All Know Him

31 Frog

32 Taking the Trees

33 On a Child’s Waking at Night

34 Heart of the Violin

35 Houses We’ve Built

36 My Return

38 Homeless

39 Glenmary Mission

III

43 America 

(2019)

44 Putting in the Flag

45 I Was Up in My Room

46 Vicksburg on the Mississippi

47 At the Jefferson County Courthouse, 1999

48 Arrowhead in the Tar

49 Earth Is a Standing Place

50 Leaving the Farm

51 Seeking Music

52 It’s Easy for Old Men

IV

55 Postcard to Jim Barnes in Missouri

56 Time

57 Samadhi

58 April 2003

59 No One Has Lived Long Enough to Tell

60 Plumbing Time

61 Pine River I

62 Pine River II

63 I Have Two Clocks

64 Iradj and the Digeridoo

65 Finding

66 How Teeth Become History

67 It Darkened One Day

68 Funeral of Akhmatova

70 Typing 

71 The Pendulum Moves Off

V

75 Unwinding the Clock

76 Still There

77 Van Gogh’s Poem

78 Two Trees

80 Leaves Are Turning

81 Father to Daughter

82 Poem in the Piano

83 Coming Back

85 Into the Stream

86 Raccoon

87 Amanitas

88 Love Letter

89 Kinship 2012

90 Little Dried Flower

91 Leaves

92 Acknowledgments

93 About the Author

Sujets

• América
• General officer
• Poetry
• Places
• General
• American

Informations

• Publié par: Madville Publishing
• Date de parution: 16 janvier 2024
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781956440683
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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