On Retirement – buy book – 9781587295270

[Jennifer Carter]

On Retirement
75 Poems
by Robin Chapman, Robin Chapman

🔗 On Retirement – READ MORE 🔗

• Author: Robin Chapman, Robin Chapman
• ISBN: 9781587295270 (158729527X)
• Language: english
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Format: paperback, 140 pages
• Release date: April 1, 2007

About The Book

In the decade ahead, more than 80 million Americans will reach the age of retirement and face what Robin Chapman and Judith Strasser call “the unnerving question, What next?” Indeed, according to the Social Security Administration, the number of Americans sixty-five or older will nearly double between 2000 and 2030. As more people approach retirement, they too will wonder what lies ahead.

    This superb collection includes poems by men and women ranging in age from their fifties to their eighties and hailing from different cities, regions, and countries. The entire range of emotions and literary perspectives is represented here, whether the specter of death in Doug Anderson’s “Sixty One” or a sly grin in Roger Pfingston’s “Retired.”

    Each poet — whether retired or just contemplating retirement — greets the prospect of this new chapter of life differently. George Bilgere purchases the complete works of Verdi and extravagant silk shirts, while Denise Levertov contemplates life alone. Alicia Ostriker implores readers to “keep on fighting, keep up the good work,” and Alberto Ríos recalls a lost love. However we contemplate retirement, this volume will illuminate the careful thoughts of those who have faced these questions before us.

 

Contributors Include:

Werner Aspenstrom, Chana Bloch, Philip Booth, Hayden Carruth, Lucille Clifton, Ruth Daigon, Susan Elbe, Sam Hamill, Mark Irwin, klipschutz, Ted Kooser, Maxine Kumin, Richard Moore, Naomi Shihab Nye, Grace Paley, Robert Pinsky, Carol Potter, Ishmael Reed, Claudette Mork Sigg, Ronald Wallace

EPUB On Retirement on iPhone. FB2 book On Retirement Robin Chapman download on IndieBound. MP3 ebook On Retirement by Robin Chapman read online for reader. FictionBook On Retirement buy on Amazon.

[投稿者]

投稿