Research Catalog

Title

Rival gardens : new and selected poems / Connie Wanek ; introduction by Ted Kooser.

Author

Wanek, Connie, 1952-

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]

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Details

Description

xii, 181 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• "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 Rival Gardens includes more than thirty unpublished poems, along with poems selected from three previous books all in Wanek's unmistakable voice: plainspoken and elegant, unassuming and wise, observant and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"--
• "A collection of poems that conjure the quiet wisdom and spirit of the Midwest and the everyday"--

Series Statement

Ted Kooser contemporary poetry

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• Ted Kooser contemporary poetry.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• Poésie
• Poetry
• poetry
• American poetry > 21st century
• 2000-2099
• POETRY / American / General

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 -- 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 -- Chrismtas fable -- After us -- Hartley Field.

ISBN

• 9780803269644
• 0803269641
• 9780803285088 (canceled/invalid)
• 0803285086 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780803285064 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780803285071 (mobi) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015032075

OCLC

907651163

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library