Living in Time [Hardcover]

Rachel Hadas (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Hadas ( Pass It On ) reflects on time in these two sections of essays and the long poem they enclose: "The Dream Machine." Her essays approach the meaning of time from a variety of perspectives. In "Morning in Ormos" Hadas remembers her four years living in a small Greek village, a period that for her ushered in adulthood. "The Lights Must Never Go Out," the strongest essay in the book, tells of the author's experiences leading a poetry workshop for men with AIDS: writing poetry becomes a way of slowing the time they have left to live. "On Time" explains how different poets--Keats, Philip Larkin, Adrienne Rich--have viewed time as a thief of days and as a messenger of the sublime. All of these deliberations on time Hadas incorporates into the central poem, a profound meditation on reality stemming from a question her son proposes--"Mommy, was that story real you read me?" Reading and poetry are ways of mediating reality, of changing or even creating reality: "Delicate, ephemeral, complex / clusters of wish and memory and loss/take shape in patterns that inspire belief / beyond experience."
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Review

Around The City: Park, Museum, Poetry Reading, Collapsing
The Child Inquires Whether A Story Is Real
Love And Need
More Night Thoughts: Ghosts; How We See Ourselves
Our Need For Stories
Redemptions By Transformation
Stichomythia
Three Adolescent Memories
Two Class Trips
Varieties Of Isolation
The Way We Live Now
What About Adults? Thoughts While The Child Sleeps
What Color Was His Bathing Suit
Word And World
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 204 pages
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press; First edition. edition (September 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813515920
• ISBN-13: 978-0813515922
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,142,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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