Cruising at Sixty to Seventy: Poems and Essay
Autor Jim Tilleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 2014
Cruising at Sixty to Seventy is the second book from award-winning poet Jim Tilley. In three sections—Dear Wife, Dear Self, Dear Friends—the speaker, a physicist and mathematician by education, now retired from a career on Wall Street, reflects on everyday experience, finding grace and drama in life’s smaller moments. As in Tilley’s debut collection, In Confidence, many poems use ideas, problems, and puzzles from physics and mathematics to explore personal relationships, such as “Particle and Wave,” in which a fundamental concept from quantum mechanics becomes a metaphor for the ripples and collisions on the fabric of family life. The book ends with a personal essay, “The Elegant Solution” (originally published as a Ploughshares Solo), about Tilley’s relationship with his father based on the language of mathematics.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781597095365
ISBN-10: 1597095362
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Red Hen Press
Colecția Red Hen Press
ISBN-10: 1597095362
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Red Hen Press
Colecția Red Hen Press
Recenzii
Praise for Jim Tilley's First Book, In Confidence
“Jim Tilley does confide in his readers here as he explores a refreshing variety of subjects—everything from the complexity of father-son and husband-wife relations to the more solvable problems of dark matter and the origins of the cosmos. But what wins our confidence is not his range but his steady hand on the poem and his steady gaze at the world.”
—Billy Collins
"Jim Tilley is a bracing and quietly confident writer, able to consistently surprise us, whether in missives from domestic life, topical poems, or poems which quirkily address what he calls “the big questions.” These are wry, bittersweet, and unobtrusively instructive poems in the tradition of Wilbur, Schuyler, and Dunn, and they are very much worth reading."
—David Wojahn
“Jim Tilley does confide in his readers here as he explores a refreshing variety of subjects—everything from the complexity of father-son and husband-wife relations to the more solvable problems of dark matter and the origins of the cosmos. But what wins our confidence is not his range but his steady hand on the poem and his steady gaze at the world.”
—Billy Collins
"Jim Tilley is a bracing and quietly confident writer, able to consistently surprise us, whether in missives from domestic life, topical poems, or poems which quirkily address what he calls “the big questions.” These are wry, bittersweet, and unobtrusively instructive poems in the tradition of Wilbur, Schuyler, and Dunn, and they are very much worth reading."
—David Wojahn
Notă biografică
Jim Tilley earned a doctorate in physics from Harvard and worked on Wall Street for twenty years. His first collection of poetry, In Confidence, was published by Red Hen Press in 2011. His poems have been published in literary journals such as Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, Southwest Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. He has won the Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize for Poetry, the New England Poetry Club’s Firman Houghton Award, and an International Publication Award from Atlanta Review. He lives in Bedford Corners, New York.
Extras
The Log
Nothing to do but slump against the log, let his heart slow, try to talk himself down, make it back. He’d had to straddle it, let his front leg dangle, pull his back leg over. As he jumped to the ground, he wasn’t aware of anything but a stab in his calf. A rattlesnake slithered off. He sat, oddly calm, his mind molting as the sun began to poke through the sassafras and dapple the forest floor, cicadas winding themselves up in the morning heat, the growing concert making it harder to concentrate. Live in the moment, his wife had said, and in a way this was a good moment, everything around him at peace, even the snake. But he had to write it all down while he still had some mind to. He removed a crumpled sheet of paper from his left pocket, rummaged around his right and found he’d forgotten a pen.
Nothing to do but slump against the log, let his heart slow, try to talk himself down, make it back. He’d had to straddle it, let his front leg dangle, pull his back leg over. As he jumped to the ground, he wasn’t aware of anything but a stab in his calf. A rattlesnake slithered off. He sat, oddly calm, his mind molting as the sun began to poke through the sassafras and dapple the forest floor, cicadas winding themselves up in the morning heat, the growing concert making it harder to concentrate. Live in the moment, his wife had said, and in a way this was a good moment, everything around him at peace, even the snake. But he had to write it all down while he still had some mind to. He removed a crumpled sheet of paper from his left pocket, rummaged around his right and found he’d forgotten a pen.
Descriere
The second collection from award-winning poet Jim Tilley, who writes “finely crafted poems in which readers will find bits and pieces of their own lives” (Stephen Dobyns).