This is Geraldine Connolly's second book of poetry. Her first book (Food for the Winter) published by Perdue University Press was very well received and is in its second printing. Connolly is an outstanding poet with a large following. We are receiving a lot of prepublication orders for this book and we think that it will do well.

Province of Fire

Connolly, Geraldine

Iris Press

Open this book at random and find a trove of thrilling images and unexpected metaphors: tiny bells jingling like sins, "a cool lake of indifference," "an impossible wheel of hunger." Read this book beginning to end and discover a dark trajectory, the work required to integrate one's family of origin with a wider consciousness and responsibility. As have those in Geraldine Connolly's previous books, these poems fly. But equipped with the acute sensitivity of an aileron, they fly higher and more daringly--exposing for us our own "beating heart, its thump and clamor." This is the work of a gifted poet at the height of her powers. --Natasha Saj

Aileron (Terrapin Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Terrapin Books

With the summer heat just around the corner, Your Impossible Voice #4 is here to refresh and delight! Our latest issue brings new work from Fulbright Foundation fellow R. Zamora Linmark, National Endowment for the Arts fellow Geraldine Connolly, Norma Farber First Book Award winner Karen An-hwei Lee, Donald Hall Prize winner Kirsten Kaschock, David Bajo, Chris Yamashita, Racquel Goodison, Michael du Plessis, Sven Hansen-Löve, John Beckman, Christopher Kondrich, Sammy Greenspan, Peter Burzynski, Bryce Emley, Monica Macansantos, Sierra-Nicole Qualles. Cover art by Jason Trbovich.

Your Impossible Voice #4: Your Impossible Voice Journal

Linmark, R. Zamora

Beckman, John

Kaschock, Kirsten

Bajo, David

An-hwei Lee, Karen

Yamashita, Chris

Goodison, Racquel

du Plessis, Michael

Hansen-Löve, Sven

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In Food for the Winter, Geraldine Connolly recovers the lost world of childhood in the years of small-town America following World War II. The prevailing imagery is that of fire, the fire of bombing recollected, the fire of Roman Catholicism, of rifles and steel mills, candles and cigarettes, fires both intellectual and physical, fires of emotion and spirit. Connolly’s collection fixes the past and its losses in place then moves from girlhood themes into the emergence of womanhood and its passions. The book’s real subject is love and the rich and varied possibilities of human relationships. The rites of passages become more than those of an individual life, achieving an identity that both records a particular moment in time yet transcends a particular human body and names us all as suffers of experience and enjoyers of perceptions.

Food for the Winter

Purdue University Press

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