Poetry. What is most remarkable about this collection is the consistent originality of the imagery and elegance of language. In the poem "Late September", we find "a plumed of smoke hand-feeding the wind". The object poem "Lemon" observes that the fruit has "bumpers on both ends like a Volkswagon". And the first stanza of the elegiac "After Us": "Rain is falling through the roof. / And all that prospered under the sun / the books that opened in the morning / and closed at night, and all day / turned their pages to the light...". Connie Wanek was born in 1952 and lives in Duluth, Minnesota. She is the author of BONFIRE, published by New Rivers Press and also available from SPD; she has also been awarded fellowship support from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council and The Jerome Foundation.

Author City: DULUTH, MN USA

Connie Wanek is the author of three books—ON SPEAKING TERMS (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), HARTLEY FIELD (Holy Cow! Press, 2002), and BONFIRE (New Rivers Press, 1997)—and she has been the recipient of several awards, including the Willow Poetry Prize and the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize. Most recently, she was named a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress by United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. She lives in the country outside Duluth, Minnesota, but often finds herself in a green tent somewhere in the Boundary Waters wilderness.

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