Waverly Songs Ii: Time, Timing, Change: Poetry by Robert Sonkowsky

By Robert Sonkowsky

As I have grown older, I have not necessarily grown wiser, at least not in brainpower, but I think my heart has grown more willing to communicate its thoughts to other hearts. In my first volume of Waverly Songs I explained that the word Waverly not only connotes the wonderful natural surroundings of Waverly Gardens, where I live with my wife, but also means wavering/quaking like the Quaking Aspen leaves on the cover and like me myself: my hands shake because of my mild familial tremor, and my general attitude and approach to life and to God shakes and quakes in ways that the poems in this second volume will develop. Its subtitle Time, Timing, Change is intended to indicate, oxymoronically enough, a broad focus that includes age and aging but goes far beyond that into a whole universe both mundane and spiritual: the intervals and rhythms of Time and his polar servants love and death, birth and re-birth, memory of the past and faith in the future. My poems are in various forms free verse, the sonnet, the villanelle etc.; I sometimes break the rules of form for our English adaptation of the Japanese Haiku and Tanka, in the orthodox version of which, rhyme is expressly forbidden, whereas I rhyme.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Oct 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781475995268

Robert Sonkowsky

Robert Sonkowsky is a poet, free-lance actor, and Classics & Theater Professor Emeritus. He has written and performed poetry since the second grade, where his creative teacher, Miss Malarkey, had her pupils use words from the spelling lists in poems and stories and read them aloud to the class. He has published two previous books of poetry: UNSOUND SCIENCE ISBN 978-1-4500-0752-8 and WAVERLY SONGS ISBN 978-1-4697-9169-2, with individual poems in some on-line and print publications, such as “Poets Against the War” and “Trellis Magazine.” He regularly recites new poems before the North Oaks, Minnesota, Poets and Writers group. For details see Wikipedia, his agent www.wehmann.com, his U. of Minnesota resume cnes.cla.umn.edu, or just Google him; for samples, both print and audio see http://www.bolchazy.com/prod.php?cat=latin&id=00007 and http://ipodius.bolchazy.com/agora/UnsoundScience.html wehmann.com > men 65+ bob sonkowsky cnes.cla.umn.edu

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