Results for "Wanek, Connie"

Celebrated poets Ted Kooser along with Connie Wanek, and illustrator Richard Jones, explore figures of speech in a spirited and magical way—and invite our imaginations out to play.A freewheeling romp through the world of imagery and metaphor, this quietly startling collection of thirty poems, framed... Read More about Marshmallow Clouds: Two Poets at Play among Figures of Speech

Connie Wanek's poetry--rooted in the Upper Midwest--is noted for adventurous imagery and pitch-perfect metaphor.... Read More about On Speaking Terms (Lannan Literary Selections)

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 Rival Gardens includes more than thirty unpublished poems, along wi... Read More about Rival Gardens: New and Selected Poems (Ted Kooser Contemporary 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... Read More about Consider the Lilies: Mrs. God Poems

Poetry. Women's Studies. Native American Studies. 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 rhythm... Read More about To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present (Many Minnesotans)