Poem: Ecclesiastes Road
Ecclesiastes Road By Patrick T. Reardon See and see: Each time passes. Journey is taken. River runs. Green brittles. Tall withers. Sun is blind. Blood dries to grit. [...]
Essay: Calvary Cemetery, 4.10.20
One of the guys from basketball at the Levy Senior Center in Evanston is recovering, apparently well, from the coronavirus. But he’s been stuck in a motel for weeks. [...]
Book review: “The Bear” by Andrew Krivak
The girl walks down to the lake to the spot where she and her father fish. A goose and gander and five goslings are there, making a home for the [...]
Poem: Eternal
Eternal By Patrick T. Reardon Eternal, puzzle us, puzzle us clockwork apart and put us back together, create/re-create, Eternal, cycle us and puzzle us to ourselves, [...]
Essay: Calvary Cemetery, 4.7.20
The lakefront parks are closed, as are all the other city parks. Walking on the sidewalks of Edgewater — normally an invigorating exercise — is weird. I find myself scanning [...]
Book review: “Elle” by Douglas Glover
The story of French noblewoman Marguerite de La Rocque de Roberval has been told and retold over the past 150 years in popular entertainment — several historical novels, poems, a [...]
Book review: “The King’s Beast: A Mystery of the American Revolution” by Eliot Pattison
Eliot Pattison’s The King's Beast: A Mystery of the American Revolution is a potboiler stew of brutality, detective work, derring-do, tribal gods, forest lore, London lore, an evil Earl, torture, [...]
Poem: April 3, 2020
April 3, 2020 By Patrick T. Reardon I learned my ABCs long ago and know the dance inside darkness. Better to stumble and bang and crash [...]
Book review: “Unknown Man No. 89” by Elmore Leonard
Unknown Man No. 89, published in 1977, is certainly an Elmore Leonard novel. It has all the elements. It’s built around Jack Ryan, a basically good guy, like all of [...]
Essay: Long books for the long hours ahead
Early on, it was pretty clear that my wife and I — both over that red-alarm age of 60 — are going to be spending basically all our time in [...]