Hartley Field: Poems by Connie Wanek, ISBN 0930100999
The poems in Hartley Field are by turns witty and amusing, lyrical and moving. But always they are clear and -direct.
Wanek writes clever, closely observed poems on subjects as diverse as "Butter" and "The Hammer, " work which is in the tradition of Francis Ponge and Pablo Neruda. These are often humorous and are enormous fun to read. Similarly, a number of poems focus upon childrens games and activities ("Checkers" and "Jump Rope, " among others), and explore them physically and psychologically.
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." A racoon advancing into a dark yard is described as "a creature both manly and womanly/capable of force or seduction." Here is the first stanza of the elegiac "After Us."
Rain is falling through the roof.And all that prospered under the sunthe books that opened in the morningand closed at night, and all dayturned their pages to the light. . . .
Joyce Sutphen says of Wanek, "Nothing about what she says or sees is routine...(Hartley Field) is a book of revelations: in poem after poem, some ordinary object or event is split open with such keen tenderness that the heart is caught off guard."
Connie Wanek was born in 1952 and lives in Duluth, Minnesota. She is the author of "Bonfire, published in 1997 by New Rivers Press. Her poems have appeared in "The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly, Country Journal, and many other publications. She has been awardedfellowship support from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council and The Jerome Foundation.
The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators by Gordon Grice, ISBN 0385318901
Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in "The Red Hourglass, prize-winning author Gordon Grice's masterful, poetic, often dryly funny exploration of predators he has encountered around his rural Oklahoma home.
Grice is a witty and intrepid guide through a world where mating ends in cannibalism, where killers possess toxins so lethal as to defy our ideas of a benevolent God, where spider remains, scattered like "the cast-off coats of untidy children," tell a quiet story of violent self-extermination. It's a world you'll recognize despite its exotic strangeness--the world in which we live. Unabashedly stepping into the mix, Grice abandons his role as objective observer with beguiling dark humor--collecting spiders and other vermin, decorating a tarantula's terrarium...
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