Book appears new and unread with some fading around spine but otherwise absolutely clean and unmarked, spine unbroken. A long poem preceded by and followed by essay-length memoirs, in which the poet explores a lifetime of literary activity. She 'examines the intersections along the paths of her life, between reading and writing, childhood and parenting, teaching and learning, action and meditation' (from the cover.).

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Title: Living in Time
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, USA
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0813515939
ISBN 13: 9780813515939
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine

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Hadas ( Pass It On ) reflects on time in these two sections of essays and the long poem they enclose: "The Dream Machine." Her essays approach the meaning of time from a variety of perspectives. In "Morning in Ormos" Hadas remembers her four years living in a small Greek village, a period that for her ushered in adulthood. "The Lights Must Never Go Out," the strongest essay in the book, tells of the author's experiences leading a poetry workshop for men with AIDS: writing poetry becomes a way of slowing the time they have left to live. "On Time" explains how different poets--Keats, Philip Larkin, Adrienne Rich--have viewed time as a thief of days and as a messenger of the sublime. All of these deliberations on time Hadas incorporates into the central poem, a profound meditation on reality stemming from a question her son proposes--"Mommy, was that story real you read me?" Reading and poetry are ways of mediating reality, of changing or even creating reality: "Delicate, ephemeral, complex / clusters of wish and memory and loss/take shape in patterns that inspire belief / beyond experience."
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