Take Your Time Coming Home: Poems

Rattan, Cleatus

ISBN 10: 1881515826 / ISBN 13: 9781881515821

Published by TRP: The University Press of SHS, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Take Your Time Coming Home: Poems
• Publisher: TRP: The University Press of SHS
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1881515826
• ISBN 13: 9781881515821
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Take Your Time Coming Home, by Cleatus Rattan, poet Laureate of Texas for 2004–05, is a book that begins with initiation themes for the child and proceeds to initiation of the adolescent and college student and cowboy. Later, the poet tries to deal with the initiation to war. Finally, a prevailing theme is that of aging and death. The point-of-view is from the aging to the aged, then from the point-of-view of the loved-one survivor to the attitude of the dying to the survivor. Nothing morbid—just a refreshing look.

About the Author

CLEATUS RATTAN is Mayborn Professor of English at The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. His book The Border (Texas Review Press, 2002) received The Texas Review Poetry prize and was later selected for study by high school students across the state of Texas in UIL competitions in literary criticism. Rattan is the first living poet to be so honored. Rattan was selected as Poet Laureate of Texas for the years 2004–05 and was cited as a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas A&M University–Commerce in 2004. National Public Radio interviewed him and asked him to read four of his poems for the second inauguration of President Bush. Rattan is a graduate of Southern Methodist University, the University of North Texas, Hardin-Simmons University, and Texas A&M University–Commerce.