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Literature & Fiction

Post, Connie

Poetry

Glass Lyre Press

Connie Post's Newest Book. In Between Twilight Post delves deep into the difficult journeys of everyday life and intersects those with the difficult maps of the past. There are ""atrocities in the body" and many ways a person can falter, fall or rise from "the hue of an unseen self." Post explores the necessary truths, the ones we can no longer hide, the ones we've held on to, for too long. In these poems, the reader will more fully understand Faulkner's "the past is never the past in never past, it's not even dead." The poet infuses elements of evolution, illness, astronomy, humanity, internal travels inside our bodies, and travels back in time "before shadows understood their first for light." Post's poems will seep into our subconscious and help us see how a room can be "dark and iridescent all at once." "In poems built like litanies, composed of echoes and refrains, and lit with the muted palette of dusk, Connie Post's Between Twilight illuminates the experience of inhabiting "the body / that knows the sound of a belt / removed before a beating...that knows / how to leave... / like music leaving a cathedral." This honest voice, this exiled voice, comes through in poems that strike me as prayer. They seek mercy, not so much from a deity but from the world, and most significantly, from herself."--Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets winner of the Pulitzer Prize "In spare free verse poems of unusual power, Connie Post locates the nexus between ourselves and a suffering world: a place of intimacy and estrangement where a lone crow flies over ruined houses 'while the grass burns / through the singed fields / of our sins.' Amid climate change and pandemic warnings, pain, pleasure, appetite, and illness fuse and broaden the poet's vision: 'you will imagine another table / another history / a way to fold and blend / your small, unrecognizable life / into a recipe you can/understand.' Post's eco-poems are refreshingly personal, testaments to the necessity of speaking truth in a time of crisis. Deeply humane and beautifully crafted, Between Twilight is the book of 'a century / that never saw itself burning,' but also the book of a poet 'making [her] own constellations // ...as celestial bodies do // quietly changing the galaxy/as if to say 'I'm here.'"--Ned Balbo, author of The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots "Connie Post's Between Twilight presents us with all the diminishments of entropy: poems about abuse, death, plane crashes, global warming, rich tea of examination, and she invites us to 'Learn to love the skeletons...the ones whose teeth are missing...the ones found in tombs.' Here, in Pos's capable hands, is a bright dance of demons and persistence and emotional poise."--Doug Ramspeck, author of Book of Years Poetry.

Between Twilight

NYQ Books

Color your world, with the help of internationally recognized designer Connie Page. She's out to change the bland palette of white walls, beige carpets, and vanilla everything that predominates in too many houses today, and replace it with bright, cheerful hues. The result: uplifting rooms that no one will want to leave. For those who want to jazz up a space quickly, there are suggestions for five-minute makeovers that work miracles in a few simple steps. For larger transformations, and to understand just how color works, see what Connie does with "Blue Sky Thinking," "Red-Hot Excitement," "Golden Opportunities," Pretty in Pink," and other shades. Answers to commonly asked questions will solve almost any design dilemma. A Selection of the Homestyle Book Club.

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Sixth&Spring Books

These poems are of a seer - unwrapping time, being, the Change we are igniting. The considerations are hard-won -- who we are, what is coming upon us in this age, the passage we are entering and the exit - the seer knows it. There are no exhortations, no longings or forecasts, only the seeing, and the forthcoming Being that envelopes us more and more, "until all that is left of us." We need this wisdom book, clear elixirs from the Source. True mind-beauty, carved with Humanity - beam, everyone must touch this volume in order to traverse the present age. Bravissimo! --Juan Herrera, 21st Poet Laureate of the United States

Prime Meridian: Poems by Connie Post

What happens to the rhythms of life when the body fails us? In Broken Metronome Connie Post composes using the erratic and irreducible language of loss. In this elegy to her brother's death by Parkinson's, she engages the medical language she must maneuver as she works through her brother's condition: "Hypokinesia/ slow or diminished movement/ I try to move slowly with you/ like when we practiced for the/ seventh-grade dance." These poems are written in the space between direct care and memory. Post's poems talk to us, confide in us, even confess in us when the most that can be asked is "less suffering." She offers us a contemplative nuanced ear tuned to the lyric turn. This is a powerful portrait of the love of a sister for a brother. A slim chapbook but a significant book in the genre of going on.-Sean Thomas Dougherty, author of The Dead are Everywhere Telling Us Things

Broken Metronome: Poems by Connie Post