Time touches everything, and in doing so changes everything. The Arrow of Time examines the challenges, transformations and surprises wrought by change, and celebrates the ways we attempt to measure our lives against this invisible force. From John Constable’s home at East Bergholt to the shattered streets of Nanking, China, in 1937, Meyer offers a fresh and lyrically commanding statement of the impact that time, death and love have on our determination to hold on to life. For Meyer, time is not merely a matter of minutes, days, or years, but the process of alteration and change that inhabits all things. In his poetry Meyer evokes how the introduction of a random element — love, beauty, or desire — changes the flow of events, how time can stand still at certain moments, and how we gain small victories by celebrating what we live for.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781553804307 9781553804284
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.M452
- LCCN Item number
- A778 2015eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (111 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00970053 (OCoLC)907968153 (CaOOCEL)450610
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- CONTENTS 10
- Expansion 14
- Young Rembrandt, 1637 16
- Seven Magpies 18
- Masterpieces 20
- The Anatomy of Tea 22
- Crystal Set 24
- Elegy for the Bees 25
- Persian Apples 26
- Explaining Romanticism to My Daughter 28
- Complications 29
- Strawberries 30
- Increase 34
- Turner’s Spectacles 36
- Thirst 38
- Marigolds 39
- Adam and Eve 41
- Jigsaw 43
- The Arrow of Time 44
- Hans Memling’s “The Donne Triptych” 45
- The Preliminary 47
- The Mathematics of Sunflowers 55
- Cause 58
- Nanking 60
- The Thin Man 62
- The Book of Things 64
- Pieta 66
- The Man in the Street 67
- Mugs 68
- The Czar’s Dog 69
- Anjou Pear 71
- The Doorframe fromNotreDamede Reugny 72
- Change 74
- Barber Shop 76
- The Thousand-Year Egg 78
- Rembrandt, Self-Portrait,1660 79
- The Passenger 81
- The Birds 83
- The Unicorn Tapestries 86
- Transmigration 87
- Entropy 90
- Miss Otis in The Cloisters 92
- The Harvest 94
- Jam 95
- Baconian Method 97
- Origami Cranes 99
- The Fall 103
- Deer in the Headlights 104
- Time amongst Quince 105
- NOTES TO THE POEMS 106
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 111
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR 112
- Back Cover 114
