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Informationen zum Autor Connie Wanek is the author of three books of poetry-Bonfire, Hartley Field, and On Speaking Terms-and the coeditor of the award-winning anthology To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-territorial Days to the Present. She has been a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress and was named George Morrison Artist of the Year, an honor given to a northern Minnesotan for contributions to the arts over many years. She has lived for decades in Duluth, Minnesota. Klappentext For decades a restorer of old homes, Connie Wanek shows us that poetry is everywhere, encountered as easily in the waterways, landscapes, and winters of Minnesota, as in the old roofs and darkened drawers of a home long uninhabited. Rival Gardens includes more than thirty unpublished poems, along with poems selected from three previous books-all in Wanek’s unmistakable voice: plainspoken and elegant, unassuming and wise, observant and original. Many of her new poems focus on the garden, beginning with the Garden of Eden. A deep feeling for family and for the losses and gains of growing into maturity mark the tone of Rival Gardens, with Wanek always attending to the telling detail and the natural world. Zusammenfassung For decades a restorer of old homes! Connie Wanek shows us that poetry is everywhere! encountered as easily in the waterways! landscapes! and winters of Minnesota! as in the old roofs and darkened drawers of a home long uninhabited. Rival Gardens includes more than thirty unpublished poems! along with poems selected from three previous books. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction by Ted Kooser Selections from Bonfire April Red Fox Abstract Wild Apples The Girl and the Horses Daylilies The Wandering Sky Broom Skim Milk Radish Radiator Missed Bus Duluth, Minnesota Blue Moon The Gelding Dragonfly Rain Toward Dusk Peonies Amaryllis Christmas Tree January Bonfire Ski Tracks Selections from Hartley Field The Coin behind Your Ear The Ventriloquist Butter Peaches Red Rover Jump Rope Horses in Spring Summer Night Lemon Long Nights Postcard: Busy Clarence Town Harbor on a Mail Boat Day Honesty Black and White Photograph Memorial Day at the Lake The Midwife The Exchange Children near the Water A Field of Barley Checkers So like Her Father The Hammer Tag Late September New Snow Grown Children Heart Surgery All Saints’ Day Christmas Fable After Us Hartley Field Selections from On Speaking Terms First Snow Monopoly Nothing Tracks in the Snow The Accordion Scrabble Directions Lipstick Everything Free Fishing on Isabella Lake Garlic Rags Lady Confessional Poem Walking Distance The Splits Buttercups Closest to the Sky Comb Umbrella Picture Yourself The Death of My Father A Sighting Green Tent Pumpkin A Random Gust from the North Musical Chairs A Parting Pecans Old Snow Pickles Coloring Book Blue Ink Six Months after My Father’s Death Honey Leftovers Ice Out New Poems Part One Garter Snake Pollen Rival Gardens The Summerhouse Polygamy The Neighbor’s Pond An Ordinary Crisis Mysterious Neighbors Catbird Root Words Rain Collection Blue Flags “Golden Glow” Blackbirds at Dusk First House Last Star Part Two Used Book Ghost Town When I Was a Boy Audience John Q. Public A Collection of Near Misses Adaptation Plein Air The Death of the Battery Girdle Parts per Million Mrs. God Genesis, Cont. Day of Rest Business First Love Part Three Artificial Tears I Heard You Come In ...
