The Arrow of Time

by Bruce Meyer

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781553804291
Publisher:	Ronsdale Press
Publication date:	09/15/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	794 KB

About the Author

BRUCE MEYER is the author of more than forty-five books of poetry, shortfiction, non-fiction, literary journalism and textbooks. His broadcasts such as “The Great Books and Great Poetry: Poetry is Life and Vice-Versa” with Michael Enright are the CBC’s bestselling spoken-word audio cds. He lives in Barrie, Ontario, with his wife and daughter.

Table of Contents

Expansion

Young Rembrandt, 1637 15

Seven Magpies 17

Masterpieces 19

The Anatomy of Tea 21

Crystal Set 23

Elegy for the Bees 24

Persian Apples 25

Explaining Romanticism to My Daughter 27

Complications 28

Strawberries 29

Increase

Turner's Spectacles 35

Thirst 37

Matigolds 38

Adam and Eve 40

Jigsaw 42

The Arrow of Time 43

Hans Memling's "The Donne Triptych" 44

The Preliminary 46

The Mathematics of Sunflowers 54

Cause

Nanking 59

The Thin Man 61

The Book of Things 63

Pic la 65

The Man in the Street 66

Mugs 67

The Czar's Dog 68

Anjou Pear 70

The Doorframe from Notre-Dame de Reugny 71

Change

Barber Shop 75

The Thousand-Year Egg 77

Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1660 78

The Passenger 80

The Birds 82

The Unicorn Tapestries 85

Transmigration 86

Entropy

Miss Otis in The Cloisters 91

The Harvest 93

Jam 94

Baconian Method 96

Origami Cranes 98

The Fall 102

Deer in the Headlights 103

Time amongst Quince 104

Notes to the Poems 105

Acknowledgements 110

About the Author 111