Instructions at Sunset - Connolly, Geraldine
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Geraldine Connolly's Instructions at Sunset instructs us about why we love poetry-the sensuality evoked throughout by the warmth of the sun, the scent of underbrush, and the simmer of dinner on the stove-images gifted us so we also live these rare moments. And surprises, too, when Connolly's noticing transforms suddenly into meaning, and we draw a breath. Many poets rely on "the pain-of-the-past" for deep feelings, but this is a book about the present, the startling brilliant present, caught exactly as it happens, for the reader to know the splendor of living in the best possible air. -Grace Cavalieri, Maryland's tenth Poet Laureate…mehr

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Geraldine Connolly's Instructions at Sunset instructs us about why we love poetry-the sensuality evoked throughout by the warmth of the sun, the scent of underbrush, and the simmer of dinner on the stove-images gifted us so we also live these rare moments. And surprises, too, when Connolly's noticing transforms suddenly into meaning, and we draw a breath. Many poets rely on "the pain-of-the-past" for deep feelings, but this is a book about the present, the startling brilliant present, caught exactly as it happens, for the reader to know the splendor of living in the best possible air. -Grace Cavalieri, Maryland's tenth Poet Laureate
Autorenporträt
Geraldine Connolly is the author of four earlier poetry books, Food for the Winter, Province of Fire, Hand of the Wind, and Aileron. Her work has appeared in a variety of literary journals, including Poetry, Shenandoah, the Georgia Review, and the Gettysburg Review. She is the recipient of two NEA fellowships, a Maryland Arts Council fellowship, and a Cafritz Foundation grant. Her work has been broadcast on WPFW radio and featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. She was executive editor of Poet Lore from 1994 to 2000 and has taught workshops for the the Maryland Poetry-in-the-Schools Program and the Graduate Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. She now lives in Alameda, California.