Poetry Books by Connie Wanek
Publisher:
Published Date: 2010-01-01
Categories: Poetry
A collection of poems by American author Connie Wanek.
Publisher:
Published Date: 1997
Categories: Poetry
These images flare up and illuminate
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published Date: 2016-02-01
Categories: LITERARY CRITICISM
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 Rival Gardens includes more than thirty unpublished poems, along with poems selected from three previous books--all in Wanek's unmistakable voice: plainspoken and elegant, unassuming and wise, observant and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.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published Date: 2018-06-28
Categories: American poetry
Inventive, surprising, moving, and often funny, the twenty poems in this book portray a female deity (Mrs. God herself) and follow her and her well-known spouse as they navigate creation and the following millennia. The following are a few lines from the first poem: "Someone had to do the dirty work, spading the garden, moving mountains, keeping the darkness out of the light, and she took every imperfection personally. Mr. Big Ideas, sure, but someone had to run the numbers..."
