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    Places and Times
    Places and Times
    Places and Times
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    Places and Times

    By Arthur Turfa

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    PLACES AND TIMES IS . . .

    . . . vibrant and alive; wholly embodying place and time.
    -William S. Tribell, Poet

    A product of a keen, observing mind . . .
    -Joanna Kurowska, author of The Wall & Beyond and Inclusions

    . . . a must have book for anyone who enjoys poetry.
    -Alicia Salabert, Poet
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereLectio Publishing
    Release dateMay 1, 2015
    ISBN9781632130976
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      Places and Times - Arthur Turfa

      Table of Contents

      Cover Page and Copyright Information

      Praise for Places and Times

      Acknowledgements

      At Times I Want to Ride

      At Buda Castle

      Let us have Pascha!

      Return to Parnassus

      A Moment at Parnassus

      The Franconian Sonnets

      I The City as Seen from the Marienberg

      II A Würzburg Saturday

      III Bicycling on the Ring

      IV Returning Home on the Train

      Franconia

      Late Afternoon: the Pilgrimage Church

      The Heights of the Hills

      Thinking I Saw Emma Thompson on the Number 1 Line

      Mein Traum

      My Dream

      Berlin bleibt doch Berlin

      Berlin bleibt doch Berlin!

      Espanola Valley Morning

      Elegy for a Mill Town: Donora, PA

      The Second Phase of Immigration

      Two Dreams in One

      THE NITTANY SONNETS

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      Sunday Morning at Beech Island

      Sunday Morning at Nine: the ecclesiastical time warp

      The Island

      Three Woods

      I

      II

      III

      My Life in 180 Seconds

      My Life in Four Hours

      Thoughts on A Road to Assisi

      From the Classroom

      Reflections on Classrooms Past

      Mundane Splendors

      Never have I stayed this long at the dance

      Everyone’s 60th Birthday Party

      Pre-Aubade Reflections on Part of a Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem The Wreck of the Deutschland Part the First, 5

      Turning of the Season

      The Languor of a Summer Afternoon- Bonham Homestead

      My Two Paths

      A View Backward from the Bend

      Glimpses of the Future

      Poem from 1974 - Old Main Lawn

      Early Saturday evenings good and evil

      New Dunciad

      Introduction

      I: Sanctuary

      II. Collegiality

      III. Collaboration

      IV. In the swing of the sea

      V. Res publica

      VI. Coda

      About the Author

      Places

      AND

      Times

      ARTHUR

      TURFA

      eLectio Publishing

      Little Elm, TX

      www.eLectioPublishing.com

      Places and Times

      By Arthur Turfa

      Copyright 2015 by Arthur Turfa

      Cover Design Copyright 2015 by eLectio Publishing

      Cover utilizes art by Carol Worthington-Levy (www.worthington-levy.com)

      ISBN-13: 978-1-63213-097-6

      Published by eLectio Publishing, LLC

      Little Elm, Texas

      http://www.eLectioPublishing.com

      The eLectio Publishing editing team is comprised of: Christine LePorte, Lori Draft, Sheldon James, and Jim Eccles.

      Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

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      PRAISE FOR ARTHUR TURFA’S PLACES

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