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

"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 Rival Gardens includes more than thirty unpublished poems, along with poems selected from three previous books all in Wanek's unmistakable voice: plainspoken and elegant, unassuming and wise, observant and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"-- Provided by publisher.

"A collection of poems that conjure the quiet wisdom and spirit of the Midwest and the everyday"-- Provided by publisher.

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Machine generated contents note: Selections from Bonfire -- April -- Red Fox -- Abstract -- Wild Apples -- Girl and the Horses -- Daylilies -- Wandering Sky -- Broom -- Skim Milk -- Radish -- Radiator -- Missed Bus -- Duluth, Minnesota -- Blue Moon -- Gelding -- Dragonfly -- Rain -- Toward Dusk -- Peonies -- Amaryllis -- Christmas Tree -- January -- Bonfire -- Ski Tracks -- Selections from Hartley Field -- Coin Behind Your Ear -- 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 -- Midwife -- Exchange -- Children Near the Water -- Field of Barley -- Checkers -- So Like Her Father -- Hammer -- Tag -- Late September -- New Snow -- Grown Children -- Heart Surgery -- All Saints' Day -- Christmas Fable -- After Us -- Hartley Field -- Selections from On Speaking Terms -- First Snow -- Monopoly -- Nothing -- Tracks in the Snow -- Accordion -- Scrabble -- Directions -- Lipstick -- Everything Free -- Fishing on Isabella Lake -- Garlic -- Rags -- Lady -- Confessional Poem -- Walking Distance -- Splits -- Buttercups -- Closest to the Sky -- Comb -- Umbrella -- Picture Yourself -- Death of My Father -- Sighting -- Green Tent -- Pumpkin -- Random Gust from the North -- Musical Chairs -- Parting -- Pecans -- Old Snow -- Pickles -- Coloring Book -- Blue Ink -- Six Months After My Father's Death -- Honey -- Leftovers -- Ice Out -- New Poems -- PART ONE -- Garter Snake -- Pollen -- Rival Gardens -- Summerhouse -- Polygamy -- Neighbor's Pond -- Ordinary Crisis -- Mysterious Neighbors -- Catbird -- Root Words -- Rain Collection -- Blue Flags -- "Golden Glow" -- Blackbirds at Dusk -- First House -- Last Star -- PART TWO -- Used Book -- Ghost Town -- When I Was a Boy -- Audience -- John Q. Public -- Collection of Near Misses -- Adaptation -- Plein Air -- Death of the Battery -- Girdle -- Parts per Million -- Mrs. God -- Genesis, Cont. -- Day of Rest -- Business -- First Love -- PART THREE -- Artificial Tears -- I Heard You Come In -- Pavement Ends -- Shoes of the Dead -- Last Time for Everything -- Practice -- Phoebe -- They Live with Us -- Recalled to Life -- Walleye -- Wild Asters -- Brave Rabbits -- Brave Rabbits, a Second Look -- Marsh at Twilight -- Second Half of the Night -- Cabbage Moth -- Garden Gloves.

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