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Self Help: A Guide for the Retiring - Softcover

Poreba, Elizabeth

 
9781532619755: Self Help: A Guide for the Retiring
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1532619758 ISBN 13: 9781532619755
Publisher: Resource Publications, 2017

Synopsis

For the retired and/or retiring, a personal exploration claiming to be a self-help manual, a poet's musings on the experience of no longer having much to do and being disinclined by shyness to join a book club. Life could become a summer afternoon, a slow swim in a warm lake. I could become another backyard roustabout, part of the greedy gang eying the vegetable garden. The larcenous woodchuck returns. We exchange a long gaze but he gives no clue of what to do next. The poems ponder various ways to adapt to unaccustomed leisure--napping, complaining, gardening, volunteering, and so on. Observing time's curious way of intermittently sprinting then lollygagging, and understanding more clearly every day that time doesn't exist anyway, the poet relishes moments, which are . . . liable to be caught like a leaf in the eddy of a brook, lodged only long enough to look, and which become her subjects.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Poreba taught English in New York City high schools for thirty-five years and now volunteers as a docent at the Old Merchant's House in Manhattan, a tutor of conversational English at New York University, and a foot soldier for the Sierra Club. She has published a chapbook, The Family Calling (2011). Her poems have appeared in Ducts.org, First Literary Review East and Commonweal, among other print and online publications.

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Publisher
Resource Publications
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1532619758
ISBN 13 
9781532619755
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
70