Let the Baby Sleep

Reardon, Patrick T.

Parenting & Relationships

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<div>The structure that anchors Chicago Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago's elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city's economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. &nbsp; This unique volume combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop's impact on the city's development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago's downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area--and the city itself--from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago's downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. &nbsp; The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. &nbsp; This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago's elevated Loop. &nbsp;</div>

The Loop: The “L” Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago

Business & Money

Economics

Southern Illinois University Press

Dads of all ages will appreciate the timely, uplifting thoughts that focus on the challenges they face at home and on the job.

Daily Meditations (With Scripture) for Busy Dads (Daily Meditations (With Scripture) Series)

Family Relationships

Acta Pubns

No one ever said fatherhood would be easy, but sometimes the rollercoaster ride of parenting can be a bit overwhelming. Whether it's misinterpreting a child's family portrait, enjoying a homemade Sunday morning breakfast, arguing with a moody teenager, or simply watching the kids skipping through the rain, fatherhood is full of ups and downs. In his new book Love Never Fails, Patrick T. Reardon, author of the popular Daily Meditations (with Scripture) for Busy Dads and Starting Out, offers a collection of reflections based on the daily occurrences of fatherhood. He celebrates the joys of parenting while acknowledging the sometimes exhausting antics of kids, and in the end shows how a father's love truly never fails. The reflections in Love Never Fails are accompanied by an inspirational quote from Scripture, music or literature, and a link to a website with practical advice on the issues discussed in the reflection. It's a wonderful gift for fathers of all ages and experience levels.

Love Never Fails: Spiritual Reflections for Dads of All Ages

ACTA Publications

Martin Scorsese's new film based on Shusaku Endo's Silence will raise a wide range of faith-related questions. And Patrick T. Reardon's Faith Stripped to Its Essence is the perfect guide for group reading and discussion. Reardon provides commentary on the novel as well as questions for reflection and discussion. Chapters of the commentary are devoted to each of the main characters and their own experience of faith. Several chapters focus on the central character, the missionary priest Fr. Sebastian Rodrigues. These characters are all believers in one way or another, but are far from unified in their approach to living that faith in the real world.

Faith Stripped to Its Essence: A Discordant Pilgrimage Through Shusaku Endo's Silence

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

“Survivors know only too well how grief is equal parts sorrow, rage, and guilt. Requiem for David is the heart’s howl, a passage through mourning, a lesson ultimately in learning how to walk alongside pain with grace. We cannot avoid the dark night of the soul, but if we don’t walk through it, we can never reach the light.” — Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street “Detail by razor-sharp detail, perception by vivid perception, recollection by haunting recollection, Patrick T. Reardon’s Requiem for David gathers into the force of a cri de coeur.” — Stuart Dybek, author of The Coast of Chicago “In Requiem for David, Patrick T. Reardon grapples with the suicide of his brother David and with the painful childhood they shared as the two oldest of fourteen children of emotionally distant parents. Their closeness is clearly articulated in his poem "Your Death.” “Your death/tore me/open like/the baby/was coming/out.” This collection also chronicles the tight bond of affection that the fourteen siblings shared. Reardon also confronts the meaning and limitations of his Catholic faith. I share his doubts and confirmations from my limited association with Catholicism. Requiem for David, supplies insights into the intersections between the religious and the secular. His poetry reminds me of the great poet and Catholic priest, Daniel Berrigan. I highly recommend this volume to all who seek uncommon answers to difficult questions.” — Haki R. Madhubuti, Ph.D., author of Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1966-2009 and YellowBlack: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet's Life, A Memoir “Patrick T. Reardon's Requiem for David is a tribute to a younger brother who died by his own hand, a balm to heal the hurt of loss and a return, however difficult, to beauty.” — Achy Obejas, author of Memory Mambo

Requiem for David: Poems

Poetry

Silver Birch Press

For this stunning collection, Patrick T. Reardon has chosen as title a line out of Genesis, as reworked by Bob Dylan. That mesh makes sense: in an incantatory voice all his own, Reardon manages to mix the local and the oracular at every turn of phrase. The poems teem with road names, ordinary and overtoned: Randolph Street, Clark Street, Proverb Street, Ecclesiastes Road. What happens on and by those roads can feel, in Reardon's capacious geography, like everything that has ever mattered in human history ("Bull Run, Fort Dearborn, Agincourt") and in literature too ("all sagas and Iliads, all Great White Whales"). Like many of our most astonishing poets, from Homer to Ginsberg, Reardon knows how to make the sacred gritty and the gritty sacred. -Stuart Sherman, author of the history Telling Time and English professor, Fordham University A veteran reporter, Patrick T. Reardon combines an analytical eye with a poet's heart creating verse layered with intrigue and surrender. Darkness on the Face of the Deep weaves together the spiritual, abstract, and fully present. His vibrant poems blend biblical imagery with modern angst. His inquisitive characters, comic and tragic, find paths in landscapes of sorrow, joy, and fear. Readers will take wild rides on juxtaposed associations, as in "African lion," dedicated to Chicago poet Haki Madhubuti: "Flame conflagrates still / those who have ears / to hear, raw hearts, / - steel spine, / mother touch - / as when / he first taught: Don't cry / scream." -John Raffetto, author of the poetry collection Human Botany In Darkness on the Face of the Deep, Patrick T. Reardon has created an Old Testament set in his beloved hometown of Chicago - a beat he knows well. In this remarkable collection, Reardon travels the city's streets and alleyways reporting on a heavenly host of only-in-Chicago characters. Like a modern-day Jeremiah, Reardon offers his personal Book of Lamentations, while providing universal insights into love, loss, and life. Reardon joins other Catholic mystic authors, such as Flannery O'Connor and Jack Kerouac, in exploring the eternal mysteries while facing both the light and the darkness. -Melanie Villines, author of the novel Windy City Sinners and editor / publisher at Silver Birch Press

Darkness on the Face of the Deep

Kelsay Books

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