Practicing to Walk Like a Heron 1st Edition by Jack Ridl 081433539X 9780814335390
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ISBN 10: 081433539X
ISBN 13: 9780814335390
Author: Jack Ridl
Poems that delight in discovering the comic, sorrowful, empathic, and spiritual in what is often overlooked. In Practicing to Walk Like a Heron multiple-award-winning Michigan poet Jack Ridl shares lines of well-earned wisdom in the face of a constantly changing world. The familiar comforts of life—a warm fire in winter, a lush garden in summer—become the settings for transcendent and universal truths in these poems, as moments of grief, sadness, and melancholy trigger a deeper appreciation for small but important joys. The simple clarity of Ridl’s lines and diction make the poems accessible to all readers, but especially rewarding for those who appreciate carefully honed, masterful verse. Many of the poems take solace in nature—quiet deer outside in the woods, deep snow, a thrush’s empty nest in the eaves—as well as man-made things in the world—a steamer trunk, glass jars, tea cups, and books piled high near an easy chair. Yet Ridl avoids becoming nostalgic or romantic in his surroundings, and shows that there is nothing easy in his celebration of topics like “The Letters,” “But He Loved His Dog,” “A Christmas List for Santa,” and “The Enormous Mystery of Couples.” An interlude of full-color pages divides Ridl’s more personal poems with a section of circus-themed pieces, adding visions of elephants, trumpets, tents, sequins, and sideshows, and the uniquely travel-weary perspectives of jugglers, trapeze artists, roustabouts, and clowns. Practicing to Walk Like a Heronunabashedly affirms the quirky and eccentric, the small and mundane, and the intellectual and experiential in life. This relatable and emotionally powerful volume will appeal to all poetry readers.
Table of contents:
1. From Our House to Your House
It’s Hard to Know Where to Begin
From Our House to Your House
Growing Up in a Small Town
Easter, 1948
Hands
Ridl Was Once Spelled Hridl
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
My Father Was in Love with Peggy Lee
Open to the Psalms
The Steps of Pittsburgh
It Wasn’t Folklore
Thinking of Yahweh During a Winter Thaw
On My Parents’ Sixty-fifth Wedding Anniversary
An Afternoon Visiting My Mother in Assisted Living
The Days
A New Beginning
The Letters
Fractals: A Nocturne
Searching Again for My Father
2. The Enormous Mystery of Couples
Suite For the Turning Year
On Going with My Wife to Her Doctor
The Enormous Mystery of Couples
Theme and Variations
Oh I Suppose
Here in the Time Between
Practicing to Walk Like a Heron
Some Notes Taken While the Media Try to Come to Terms with the Life and Death of Michael Jackson
With
Morning Rounds
Christmas, the Execution of Tookie Williams
The Neighbors
William Blake’s Hiccoughs
After Talking It Over
Just Before He Had Another Panic Attack
Mid-October Morning
Ron Howard’s on the Cover of AARP
Take Love for Granted
My Wife Has Sent Me an Email
A Quiet Study in Black and Gray
Speaking Objectively in Winter
Raking the Duck Weed
Putting Away the Santas
Hardship in a Nice Place
The End of This Year
Have You Heard the One About?
It’s April and It Should Be Spring
Epilogue
Interlude: “Hey Skinny, the Circus Is in Town!”
Circus: Late Summer
Outside the Center Ring
Grouse of the Circus Boss
After the Lion Tamer
Sequins
Daydreams of the Catcher of the Queen of the Air
Suzie
The Death of the Queen of the Air
Circus Cook
The End of the Fat Lady
Death in the Dog Act
The Children of the Lion Tamer
Roustabout
Clown
The Balloon Man
Night on the Circus Lot
Winter Quarters
3. The Hidden Permutations of Sorrow
The Two Chairs in the Garden
What Are You Supposed to Do Anyway?
Within the Moment of Indefinite Suffering
The Hidden Permutations of Sorrow
Listening to Chopin in Early Winter
At the “As the Spirit Moves” Poetry Reading
Instead of Planting Roses
The Man Who Loved Mulch
After Midnight: Insomnia’s Solace
A Man I Know
“Moose. Indian.”
Several Old People Are Walking by Our Window
A List of Possibilities in an Uncertain Order
He Brings Home Everything
Monet’s “Winter on the Seine, Lavacourt”
Preludes
Another Puppet Show
The Reunion
The Dogs’ Door Is at the Far End of the House
The Artist to the Canvas
A Christmas List for Santa
But He Loved His Dog
A Cabinet of Natural Curiosities
The Yearling with the Broken Leg
Another Day in Your Life
The Knitters
Drinking Black Tea Early in the Morning
For Lenny
A Generous Welcome
After Spending the Morning Baking Bread
Return to a Place I Don’t Remember
The Heron
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