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    In Cadence
    In Cadence
    In Cadence
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    In Cadence

    By C. Rodney Pattan and Lance B. Brender

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    In Cadence is a collection of poetry from two Army officers. This annotated selection presents Rod Pattan and Lance Brender's experiences as soldiers, artists, and men in their first collaborative work.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateOct 6, 2016
    ISBN9781524640675
    In Cadence
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    C. Rodney Pattan

    C. Rodney Pattan is a United States Army Medical Doctor, currently serving as the Deputy Commander of Clinical Services at the General Leonard Wood Army Medical Center. He was a nationally competitive golfer until the age of fifty and is the author of the novel Uphill Against the Wind.

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      In Cadence - C. Rodney Pattan

      © 2016 C. Rodney Pattan and Lance B. Brender. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 10/05/2016

      ISBN: 978-1-5246-4069-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5246-4067-5 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2016915628

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      A Soldier

      Goodbye, My Desert

      They Also Serve (A Soldier’s Wife)

      Lieutenant Colonel, Infantry, Commanding

      American Dream

      Boots

      Root for Genius

      Fortunate Son’s

      ’Cause I Do

      Grown Daughter

      I Would that I Were Dreamt

      Dreaming of Maxxy

      If You Hear From Me

      Would It Be Alright

      Text Messages

      The Last Great Kiss

      Subway Car

      Velvet and Iron

      House of Peace

      The Joyful Smile

      Fathers

      Unforeseen Heroes

      Telephone

      The Teacher

      On Writing Poetry

      Stoic Grace

      I’ve Sore Feet

      Go Tigers

      Night Watch

      Korean Valley

      Bruder’s Boys

      Cuckoo

      Not Yet Angel

      Sad Little Egg

      Dog and Pony Show

      About the Authors

      The Why of Writing and Reading Poetry

      Nobel Laureate T.S. Eliot, in his introduction to Marianne Moore’s 1935 Collected Poems, wrote of poetry and the poet herself:

      Living, the poet is carrying on that struggle for the maintenance of a living language, for the maintenance of its strength, its subtlety, for the preservation of quality of feeling, which must be kept up in every generation… Miss Moore is, I believe, one of those few who have done the language some service in my lifetime.

      She received, at various points in her long career, the Poetry Society of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished Development, the National Medal for Literature, the Bollingen prize, the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. In short, she was acclaimed for the power and beauty of her words. Yet this doyen of American letters would famously write a work entitled Poetry which, in the 1967 version, reads:

      I, too, dislike it.

      Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

      This seems a strange sentiment for a poet. What can she possibly intend? Ben Lerner, a fellow poet, sheds some considerable light on this question in his delightful essay, The Hatred of Poetry. He suggests that every poem is a record of failure. Lerner goes on, quoting from Caedmon, a poet to whom God revealed a perfect poem in a dream. Caedmon, writing of his efforts to record this perfection, says that songs, be they never so well made, cannot be turned of one tongue into another, word for word, without loss to their grace and worthiness. In a

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