# reardon (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover reardon. Page: Feed: --- ## [Essay: “The Odyssey” – three translations side by side](https://patricktreardon.com/essay-the-odyssey-three-translations-side-by-side/) _2026-08-21 · Patrick T. Reardon · Patrick T. Reardon_ In preparing my review of Daniel Mendelsohn’s new translation of The Odyssey, I made a detailed comparison of how it matched against Emily Wilson’s 2018 version and the 1967 rendering of the epic by noted translator Richmond Lattimore. I chose Wilson’s because Mendelsohn argued in his prefatory remarks that her translation was faulty since it \[...\] The post Essay: “The Odyssey” – three… ## [Poem: Confesses](https://patricktreardon.com/poem-confesses/) _2026-08-19 · Patrick T. Reardon · Patrick T. Reardon_ Confesses Patrick T. Reardon Clark Street this flat morning is a god of hardness, white in sun. One-Cent watches the Tower of Silence pull her homeless luggage north, her sock hat tight on her head, her dark glasses, a wall before any eyes. Watches thick-thighed Eagle Air walk off his run, a \[...\] The post Poem: Confesses appeared first on Patrick T. Reardon . ## [Book review: “Like Love” by Ed McBain](https://patricktreardon.com/book-review-like-love-by-ed-mcbain/) _2026-08-17 · Patrick T. Reardon · Patrick T. Reardon_ At the end of Ed McBain’s 1962 novel Like Love, Steve Carella and Cotton Hawes watch as the confessed killer is taken out of the squadroom on his way to the detention cells on the first floor. As he moves down the stairs, they listen “without a sense of triumph, without even a sense of \[...\] The post Book review: “Like Love” by Ed McBain appeared first on Patrick T. Reardon . ## [Book review: “Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ‘Letters and Papers from Prison’: A Biography” by Martin E. Marty](https://patricktreardon.com/book-review-dietrich-bonhoeffers-letters-and-papers-from-prison-a-biography-by-martin-e-marty/) _2026-08-14 · Patrick T. Reardon · Patrick T. Reardon_ In a book filled with the debates and arguments of theologians, Marty E. Marty gives the final words to two people who knew Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the last days of his Nazi captivity before his execution on April 9, 1945. It was in prison where Captain Payne Best, a British spy, met the Lutheran pastor. \[...\] The post Book review: “Dietrich Bonhoeffer s ‘Letters and Papers from Prison’: A… ## [Poem: Deep](https://patricktreardon.com/poem-deep/) _2026-08-12 · Patrick T. Reardon · Patrick T. Reardon_ Deep Patrick T. Reardon One-Cent runs like two thousand pigs into the deep. He is where the wind starts. Later, he will be buried facedown. The beaver trap snaps. Wendi in a dress and doubt, hereticked. Two brothers, one paid the price. The nun, unJesused, still in love with the uglies at the \[...\] The post Poem: Deep appeared first on Patrick T. Reardon . ## [Book review: “The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend” by Glenn Frankel](https://patricktreardon.com/book-review-the-searchers-the-making-of-an-american-legend-by-glenn-frankel/) _2026-08-10 · Patrick T. Reardon · Patrick T. Reardon_ The two searchers in John Ford’s classic Western The Searchers — Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) and Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter) — come upon a smoldering Indian village and the bodies of men, women and children slaughtered by the cavalry of Col. George Armstrong Custer, and they are shocked. It is, writes Glenn Frankel in The \[...\] The post Book review: “The Searchers: The Making of an American… ## [Book review: “The Waters” by Bonnie Jo Campbell](https://patricktreardon.com/book-review-the-waters-by-bonnie-jo-campbell/) _2026-08-07 · Patrick T. Reardon · Patrick T. Reardon_ Picture this: Six goofily regular guys in the middle of the night are stumbling neck-deep in a turbid bog, called the Waters, in a stumblebum effort to carry Rose Thorn Zook, a pregnant woman they’ve known all their lives, to the island where her family has lived for generations and where she wants to give \[...\] The post Book review: “The Waters” by Bonnie Jo Campbell appeared first on Patrick T.… ## [Poem: Voice](https://patricktreardon.com/poem-voice/) _2026-08-05 · Patrick T. Reardon · Patrick T. Reardon_ Voice Patrick T. Reardon . Hear my voice. Hide me. He underwent translation, like a poem set afire, like a slashed Madonna and Child. Sword tongue and bitter salad. River of peace, unfountained. He apologized for self-death in the note in his angular writing, left-handed difficulty, trouble. Oh, what a beautiful. Oh, what a good. \[...\] The post Poem: Voice appeared first on Patrick T. Reardon . ## [Book review: “How Architecture Works: A Humanist’s Toolkit” by Witold Rybczynski](https://patricktreardon.com/book-review-how-architecture-works-a-humanists-toolkit-by-witold-rybczynski/) _2026-08-03 · Patrick T. Reardon · Patrick T. Reardon_ The subtitle of a book can be distracting, enlightening and, at times, misleading. My sense — for what it’s worth — is that the author may come up with the title, but it’s often the publisher and the marketing people who compose the subtitle. I think that’s what happened with Withold Rybczynski’s 2013 book How \[...\] The post Book review: “How Architecture Works: A Humanist s Toolkit” by Witold… ## [Book review: “Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man” by Peter K. Andersson](https://patricktreardon.com/book-review-fool-in-search-of-henry-viiis-closest-man-by-peter-k-andersson/) _2026-07-31 · Patrick T. Reardon · Patrick T. Reardon_ William Somer was Henry VIII’s fool. He also served in some capacity in or on the edge of the court during the reigns of Henry’s children: Edward VI, the sickly Protestant teen; the fervid Catholic Mary I; and Elizabeth I, another Protestant. The fact that he was able to stay linked to the Tudor courts \[...\] The post Book review: “Fool: In Search of Henry VIII s Closest Man” by Peter K. Andersson… ## [Collect Open Source Legends (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/SXXXm3GgpI1g) _2026-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ Open-licensed art, limited foil trading packs, and optional on-chain mints. ## [Poem: Jagged](https://patricktreardon.com/poem-jagged/) _2026-07-29 · Patrick T. Reardon · Patrick T. Reardon_ Jagged Patrick T. Reardon The shoeless guy sleeping on the McDonald’s bench along the north windows is the god of still waters. The unfocused one, rocking over his Egg McMuffin, was once the mayor of Akron, now el-riding through the cold night, sneaking rest in the blank before the morning rush. The wraith \[...\] The post Poem: Jagged appeared first on Patrick T. Reardon . ## [Book review: “Blake: A Biography” by Peter Ackroyd](https://patricktreardon.com/book-review-blake-a-biography-by-peter-ackroyd/) _2026-07-27 · Patrick T. Reardon · Patrick T. Reardon_ Laboring in obscurity two centuries ago, William Blake is now considered one of the great figures of English poetry and a brilliant idiosyncratic visual artist. The story of his life, as told by Peter Ackroyd in his 1996 book Blake: A Biography, stirred me as a poet in a direct, intense and immediate way. During \[...\] The post Book review: “Blake: A Biography” by Peter Ackroyd appeared first on… ## [Essay: Listening with a hearing heart](https://patricktreardon.com/essay-listening-with-a-hearing-heart/) _2026-07-24 · Patrick T. Reardon · Patrick T. Reardon_ Back in the 1950s, there was a TV series called The Millionaire. The idea was that, each week, a rich guy would give away $1 million to someone he’d never met. Then, the recipient had to decide what to do with the money, for better or worse. Photo: Nano Erdozain In the first \[...\] The post Essay: Listening with a hearing heart appeared first on Patrick T. Reardon .