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Bonfire
Paperback, 96 pages New Rivers Press; 1st edition (June 1, 1997) ISBN-10: 0898231787 ISBN-13: 978-0898231786 |
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"Wanek's poems have a clarity and sureness that give the reader a feeling of joy, the joy of a shared experience and insight, the joy that comes in the recognition of a truth, a rightness...Her poems take the moment, turn it upside down, open it, examine it. They give us a view from the dragonfly's eye. They show us the beauty, the humor, the danger we might have missed."
-Louis Jenkins "Wanek is superb, mature, a master of mood and language." -Bart Sutter |
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Hartley Field
Paperback, 80 pages Holy Cow! Press (September 1, 2002) ISBN-10: 0930100999 ISBN-13: 978-0930100995 |
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"Wanek notices everything, from a look that passes over her daughter's three-year-old face to the way a nail stands waiting for the hammer to descend...she seems to be the best possible combination of an Elizabeth Bishop and a Marianne Moore."
-Joyce Sutphen "Wanek is from Wisconsin, but her sensibility often seems Eastern European or Scandinavian. Like Szymborska, Wanek likes to end poems with poised yet cutting observations or intimations of dread that can turn ordinary activities into existential dilemmas." -David Orr "When Connie Wanek quotes Robert Bly who said, 'It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God,' she could be describing the movement of many of her own poems which may start with a lemon or a field of barley, continue on their quirky journey, and end with at least a touch of wisdom. For though there is humour and irony here, there is also a bedrock of family feeling, of regard for the past and acknowledgement of death waiting ahead. These are truly original poems, enriched by metaphor and lit by a hard won optimism." -Linda Pastan |
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To Sing Along The Way
Paperback, 245 pages New Rivers Press (October 1, 2006) ISBN-10: 0898232325 ISBN-13: 978-0898232325 |
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The first historical and contemporary anthology of Minnesota women poets, this anthology is edited by three prize-winning poets. Poems included range from the earliest poetry in Minnesota-oral song-poems of Ojibwe women-through the sounds and rhythms of early-twentieth-century formalism and contemporary free verse.
Arranged chronologically, these disparate poems are connected by the common thread of universal themes and reflect Minnesota's diversity of women's voices. Among the more than one hundred contributors are Harriet Bishop, Candace Black, Frances Densmore, Elaine Goodale Eastman, Mary Eastman, Louise Erdrich, Diane Glancy, and Patricia Hampl. Contributors' biographies and suggestions for further reading are included. |
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On Speaking Terms
Forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. This is the tentative cover image: "Pepper and Lemon on a White Tablecloth" by Odilon Redon. The book will appear in December 2009. |