Waverly Songs II: Time, Timing, Change - Couverture souple

Sonkowsky, Robert

 
9781475995251: Waverly Songs II: Time, Timing, Change
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1475995253 ISBN 13 : 9781475995251
Editeur : iUniverse, 2013

Synopsis

As I have grown older, I have not necessarily grown wiser, at least not in brainpower, but I think my heart has grown more willing to communicate its thoughts to other hearts. In my first volume of "Waverly Songs" I explained that the word "Waverly" not only connotes the wonderful natural surroundings of Waverly Gardens, where I live with my wife, but also means "wavering/quaking" like the Quaking Aspen leaves on the cover and like me myself: my hands shake because of my mild "familial tremor," and my general attitude and approach to life and to God shakes and quakes in ways that the poems in this second volume will develop. Its subtitle "Time, Timing, Change" is intended to indicate, oxymoronically enough, a broad focus that includes age and aging but goes far beyond that into a whole universe both mundane and spiritual: the intervals and rhythms of Time and his polar servants love and death, birth and re-birth, memory of the past and faith in the future. My poems are in various forms - free verse, the sonnet, the villanelle etc.; I sometimes break the rules of form for our English adaptation of the Japanese Haiku and Tanka, in the orthodox version of which, rhyme is expressly forbidden, whereas I rhyme.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

As I have grown older, I have not necessarily grown wiser, at least not in brainpower, but I think my heart has grown more willing to communicate its thoughts to other hearts. In my first volume of "Waverly Songs" I explained that the word "Waverly" not only connotes the wonderful natural surroundings of Waverly Gardens, where I live with my wife, but also means "wavering/quaking" like the Quaking Aspen leaves on the cover and like me myself: my hands shake because of my mild "familial tremor," and my general attitude and approach to life and to God shakes and quakes in ways that the poems in this second volume will develop. Its subtitle "Time, Timing, Change" is intended to indicate, oxymoronically enough, a broad focus that includes age and aging but goes far beyond that into a whole universe both mundane and spiritual: the intervals and rhythms of Time and his polar servants love and death, birth and re-birth, memory of the past and faith in the future. My poems are in various forms - free verse, the sonnet, the villanelle etc.; I sometimes break the rules of form for our English adaptation of the Japanese Haiku and Tanka, in the orthodox version of which, rhyme is expressly forbidden, whereas I rhyme.

Biographie de l'auteur

Robert Sonkowsky is a poet, free-lance actor, and Classics & Theater Professor Emeritus. He has written and performed poetry since the second grade, where his creative teacher, Miss Malarkey, had her pupils use words from the spelling lists in poems and stories and read them aloud to the class. He has published two previous books of poetry: UNSOUND SCIENCE ISBN 978-1-4500-0752-8 and WAVERLY SONGS ISBN 978-1-4697-9169-2, with individual poems in some on-line and print publications, such as "Poets Against the War" and "Trellis Magazine." He regularly recites new poems before the North Oaks, Minnesota, Poets and Writers group. For details see Wikipedia, his agent www.wehmann.com, his U. of Minnesota resume cnes.cla.umn.edu, or just Google him; for samples, both print and audio see http://www.bolchazy.com/prod.php? cat=latin&id=00007 and http://ipodius.bolchazy.com/agora/UnsoundScience.html wehmann.com > men 65+ bob sonkowsky cnes.cla.umn.edu

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1475995253
ISBN 13 
9781475995251
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
76
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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