falling asleep
against my shoulder
the baby twitches,
closes her eyes, sags
into total faith
Bread Pudding and Other Memories: A Boyhood on the Farm
Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond (Contemporary Sports Issues)
Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
The 1960s: American Popular Culture Through History
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography
Legends of American Indian Resistance
Baseball in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching the National Pastime
Murder 101: Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction
The Sister Fidelma Mysteries: Essays on the Historical Novels of Peter Tremayne
Approaches to Teaching Swift's Gulliver's Travels (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
Neighborhood Heroes: Life Lessons Learned from Maine's Greatest Generation
Answers Instead: A Life in Haiku
Abandoned farmhouse: And other haiku
Ways of Looking: Poems of the Farm
Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems
The Breaking of Glass Horses and Other Poems
A Fine, Safe Journey: Poems about Haying and Other Matters
To Sadie at 18 Months and Other Poems
Answers Instead: A Life in Haiku
"Edward J. Rielly is a master poet. His latest book, To Sadie at 18 Months and Other Poems, celebrates the birth of his granddaughter in a manner that allows the reader to participate in this joyous event. Behind, in between, and in all of his words, Rielly interconnects his subject with universal themes. True, there is a sweetness throughout these pages, but it is made not of sugar, but of love and truth in all of their manifestations. I highly recommend this book."
--Stanford M. Forrester, Editor of bottle rockets
"Edward Rielly offers visual snapshots of the wondrous journey of family. His sharp observations of the everyday magic of childhood offer readers a glimpse of the simple joys and various rewards of parenting and grandparenting. A treasure to read."
--Peggy French, editor of Shemom
"It is often said that writing tanka about one's own grandchild is very difficult but Edward J. Rielly, who is one of the accomplished tanka poets in GUSTS, succeeded in writing about his granddaughter, Sadie, with controlled expressions of love. These tanka are filled with lyricism."
--Kozue Uzawa, editor of Gusts: Contemporary Tanka
falling asleep
against my shoulder
the baby twitches,
closes her eyes, sags
into total faith