Research Catalog

Title

On retirement : 75 poems / edited by Robin Chapman & Judith Strasser.

Publication

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chapman, Robin S.
• Strasser, Judith, 1944-

Description

xii, 108 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Retirement > Poetry

Note

• Includes index.
• One translated from Swedish; one translated from Vietnamese.

Contents

Sixty-one / Doug Anderson -- Who is not a child / Werner Aspenstrom -- Eliseo's cabin, Taos Pueblo / John Balaban -- Reaching eighty / Meg Barden -- Bamboo / Elinor Benedict -- Unwise purchases / George Bilgere -- The sixth age / Chana Bloch -- Pairs / Philip Booth -- Wait-time is currently about twelve minutes / Jonathan Bracker -- [thinking of retirement] / John Brandi -- Waking / Bill Brown -- Retirement matters / Charles Cantrell -- At seventy-five : rereading an old book / Hayden Carruth -- In the pinecrest rest home / Grace Cavalieri -- Some little happiness / Thomas Centolella -- The inspector of snowstorms / Robin Chapman -- God and goddess / Kelly Cherry -- Climbing / Lucille Clifton -- A visitation / Stephanie Kaplan Cohen -- To the woman who left her old age to someone older than she will ever be / Ruth Daigon -- Rest cure / Martha L. Deed -- On his early retirement / Marcia Denius -- Flu clinic at the retirement center / Mary L. Downs -- The carpenter's song / Stephen Dunn -- Brooding over the body / Susan Elbe -- Heading towards forty / R. Virgil Ellis -- No clomping straightforward narrative : there is an abstraction in aging only abstraction can relay / Diane Glancy -- The orchid flower / Sam Hamill -- Retirement / Jim Hanlen -- The work place / Albert Huffstickler -- Last minute instructions / Benjamin Husted -- Mansion of happiness / Mark Irwin -- Assorted hobbies / Ruth Harriet Jacobs -- Ham and the moon / Jesse Lee Kercheval -- Parents' pantoum / Carolyn Kizer -- Office / Klipschutz -- Applesauce / Ted Kooser -- One by one / Ellen Kort -- Women and horses / Maxine Kumin -- Living alone (III) / Denise Levertov -- The physicist's warning / Sandra Lindow -- All dressed up / Arlene L. Mandell -- Almost eighty / Lenore Mayhew -- Bureaucrat tells how / Jeri McCormick -- Old guys / Wesley McNair -- Walking out / Ann McNeal -- Father of the bride / Robin O. Metz -- Deadwood / Johnes K. Moore -- On coming to nothing / Richard Moore -- The crossing / Ruth Moose -- Marriage / Edith Nash -- Retirement / Nguyen Binh Khiem -- Open house / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Anna Bachtle / Ed Ochester -- Fifty / Alicia Ostriker -- Here / Grace Paley -- After the ultrasound / Rebecca Parfitt -- Drawing for absolute beginners / Molly Peacock -- Retired / Roger Pfingston -- The neurology professor retires / Ronald Pies -- The cold / Robert Pinsky -- Comfort zone / Carol Potter -- Letter of transmittal / Hilda Raz -- The South Berkeley branch closes / Ishmael Reed -- Luke like life / Francine Ringold -- The conversation of old husbands / Alberto Rios -- Report from the Stratosphere / Elisavietta Ritchie -- Barre exercises / Claudette Mork Sigg -- You reading this, be ready / William Stafford -- This was a wonderful night / Gerald Stern -- Now I'm retired, I have time / Judith Strasser -- Wednesday, the hole / Bruce Taylor -- Aunt Eudora's harlequin romance / Marilyn L. Taylor -- A three-year-old visits / Donna Wahlert -- Blessings / Ronald Wallace.

ISBN

• 158729527X
• 9781587295270

LCCN

2006932732

OCLC

• ocm84841109
• 84841109
• SCSB-5320366

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries