ENDGAME Poetry of Retirement edition by Grady Means Literature Fiction eBooks
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ENDGAME is a book of poetry and prose on the exciting and treacherous passage of life known as retirement.
ENDGAME Poetry of Retirement edition by Grady Means Literature Fiction eBooks
I was quite moved by the prose and poetry in this book. There are so many books out there about how to plan financially for your retirement, but nothing that I know of has been written about how it feels, or what this phase of your life really means. This book is forward looking, and positive in many ways, about how this time in our lives is ripe for examination of how we want to handle the final 20 or 30 years of our life when we are not working in an office or home on a daily schedule. Even as a full time "mom" who felt she "retired" after her children left home--the thoughts in this book resonated with me. Some of the lines in the poems were like a revelation ----easy to understand, but lots to think about...Fixed income and Orchestra seats (a poem about switching places from the stage to the audience as our children grow up and need us less to advise, and more to applaud) these are thoughts that this author has touched on that moved me. This is a quick read, and a fulfilling one - lots of food for thought.....Enjoy, I certainly did!Product details
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ENDGAME Poetry of Retirement edition by Grady Means Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
The author has captured the many aspects of retirement, grown families, long marriages and the beginning of the famous Golden Years ( which these days can start as early as 50 while life still races around one ) This is not your Father's Golden Years. In short all those things that we, especially men, think about as they( and we their spouses) begin to experience in life after careers and family raising. His free verse is humorous, thoughtful and provoking. Each poem has a short prose introduction which is just as satisfying. I am not a poetry person but was immediately captured by this well written and thoughtful book. It is a fast read and one to be re read - perfect coffee table little book amongst all those larger photo ones !
There are two books here, the poems and Grady's notes. Both the prose and the poems encapsulate thoughts about the past, anticipation of the future and spiritual reflection. Retirement may have triggered the writing, but in reading the book, I was in a place that made me feel comfortable about true self assessment and the meaning of life.
Maybe the book should be aimed at a young audience under the marketing banner of "Start with the end in mind".
I have found it convenient to describe my life purpose by my career, doing so spares a significant amount of social anxiety should I explain to those gathered around how I would like to be defined. Is there even language for that?. "I have a job as a management consultant but I would really like to enroll in the Guitar Institute, become a studio rat and play on 30 second commercials". So I play the game of social sleight of hand to manage others expectations.
Should I retire, I will be cornered and have to deal with who I became.
Better to learn that at 20 rather than 65.
Grady Means has created a wonderful collection of his poems that cluster around themes of retirement the shock of giving up the steady rhythms and context of corporate work; the novelty and challenge of creating an agenda when your in-box is empty; and the memories and appetites that reveal themselves in the quieter mind-set that greater leisure offers. This is a worthy and even important subject, but what pulled me through the collection is the delight at particular insights, some mundane, some profound. And the often-elegant link between the two.
To be a father and husband, Means observes, is to worry that a noise at night is a leak, or something else gone wrong; to investigate is either a neurosis, or a high calling, the protection of family, of people he loves. Another poem, Occupational Hazards, traces the imaginative play of himself as a child - a wizard, an explorer, a conjurer of secret worlds - and finds an echo of that sense of play, wonder and discovery is of late more visible to him, as if work, like daylight, does not destroy stars, but simply conceals them. It's a thoughtful, fun, un-self-serious collection of musings and images by someone who must be thoughtful, fun and not too self-serious as a person. I liked spending time with the book, and harbor ambitions to be more like the author when I grow up.
In short, elegant, witty, simple, evocative, at times poignant ... a very well crafted set of poems that will have wide appeal, and I strongly recommend to any reader.
I was quite moved by the prose and poetry in this book. There are so many books out there about how to plan financially for your retirement, but nothing that I know of has been written about how it feels, or what this phase of your life really means. This book is forward looking, and positive in many ways, about how this time in our lives is ripe for examination of how we want to handle the final 20 or 30 years of our life when we are not working in an office or home on a daily schedule. Even as a full time "mom" who felt she "retired" after her children left home--the thoughts in this book resonated with me. Some of the lines in the poems were like a revelation ----easy to understand, but lots to think about...Fixed income and Orchestra seats (a poem about switching places from the stage to the audience as our children grow up and need us less to advise, and more to applaud) these are thoughts that this author has touched on that moved me. This is a quick read, and a fulfilling one - lots of food for thought.....Enjoy, I certainly did!
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