Reinvention : : Poems.

• Author: Emmett, Rik.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : ECW Press,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (122 pages)

Guitarist and singer from the internationally successful rock band Triumph, Rik Emmett pens his first poetry collection.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface - Recreational Therapy -- Part One: The Humanities -- The Search Is Sacred -- These Be the Attitudes -- Self-Confession: Uncommonly Reasonable Secular Agnostic Common Prayer -- Angels -- Love Is the Answer -- Part Two: Life and Death -- Have a Good Day -- Dear Diary -- Game Changer -- Four Stanzas -- Ticket to Ride -- Loss, Grief, Ritual -- Born to Pay -- Definitions, Perspective and Choices -- The Examined Life Is Worth Living -- Courage of Convictions -- Part Three: There's Politics in Everything -- There's Politics in Everything -- Genders Strangers Foreigners Lovers -- Hands Up, Hands Down -- Code Blue -- Tail Wags the Dog -- The Impossible Temper of Our Times (Part One) -- The Impossible Temper of Our Times (Part Two) -- Part Four: Double Helix -- Eleven Eleven Eleven Twelve -- Go Leafs Go -- Motivation -- Geologia Hominum Huius Temporis -- Forgiveness -- Self-Invention (One) -- Reinvention (Two) -- Reinvention (Three) -- Reinvention (Four) -- Not So Little Brother and His Insatiable Appetite for Life -- Remembering Russell -- Part Five: Soapbox Sermonettes -- So Much, So Little -- Look -- How Are You? Thanks for Asking -- Rallying Cry -- Conquistadors -- Power Up &amp -- Down -- Maybe I've Got This Wrong -- Binary Code -- The Non-Secrets of Life (Part One): Work, Failure: Gravity, Balance -- The Non-Secrets of Life (Part Two): Coming to Terms -- The Non-Secrets of Life (Part Three): Time Time Time -- Part Six: Time Time Time -- When Time Is Beautiful -- When Time Is Ugly -- The Future in The Present: A Change in the Weather -- The Present Can Be a Gift -- Part Seven: Ars Nova 2020 -- Do Heals Make Noise? -- Txtng -- Like -- The World of Song -- Ultra-Talk! -- Snowflakes -- Dream #23,475 -- Oh Canada -- Grateful Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Back Cover.