On Speaking Terms
Connie Wanek
Connie Wanek’s third book of poems, On Speaking Terms, is amusing, tender, and surprising. A former 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
the first snowman, her second sin, and she laughed
as she rolled up the wet white carpet
and lifted the wee head into place.
"And God causeth the sun to melt her labors,
for He was a jealous God."
"Take my word for it—this new book by Connie Wanek is outstanding, and some of the poems will stick with you for the rest of your life."—Ted Kooser
Binding: paper
ISBN: 978-1-55659-294-2
On Speaking Terms
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