On Speaking Terms Contributor(s): Wanek, Connie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1556592949 ISBN-13: 9781556592942 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: January 2010 Click for more in this series: Lannan Literary Selections |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2009029434 |
Series: Lannan Literary Selections |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" L (0.35 lbs) 96 pages |
Features: Table of Contents |
Awards: Minnesota Book Award, Winner, Poetry, 2011 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award, Winner, Poetry, 2010 |
Review Citations: Library Journal 01/15/2010 pg. 112 New York Times Book Review 04/25/2010 pg. 18 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Connie Wanek . . . is superb, mature [and] a master of mood and language."--St. Paul Pioneer Press "No poet I know, with the exception of Jane Kenyon, is as able to discover the magic and depth in ordinary, day-to-day life and to artfully render that vision for the reader."--Louis Jenkins Connie Wanek's third book of poems, On Speaking Terms, is amusing, tender, and surprising. Herself a librarian in Duluth, Minnesota, Wanek's poems emerge from everyday objects--Scrabble, garlic, lipstick, hawkweed--and the landscapes, waterscapes, and severe winters of the upper Midwest. Readers will shove off in canoes, buckle on skis, set fishing nets in Lake Superior, and spend time in the real world of the imagination. Lit by startling metaphors, Wanek's work has been justly compared to Wislawa Szymborska's for its wry wit and spare "Eastern European" sensibility. . . . Afterwards it was Eve who made Connie Wanek is the author of two books of poems. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota, where she is a public librarian and renovates old houses with her husband. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Atlantic Monthly and Poetry. In 2006 she was named a Witter Bynner Fellow in Poetry from the Library of Congress. |
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