Hand of the Wind [Paperback]

Geraldine Connolly (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2009

Hand of the Wind by Geraldine Connolly is a book of poetry. Most of the poems are set in the Western United States.

Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Iris Press (June 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1604542047
• ISBN-13: 978-1604542042
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,859,832 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars crisp images, arresting turns of phrase, light up complex relationships, September 9, 2009

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M. Myers (Arizona) - See all my reviews
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I enjoyed savoring these poems. Connolly's writing illuminates physical and emotional landscapes that are interconnected. This book is part elegy for her father,part examination of the complicated relationship she felt with her mother, and part acknowledgement of the often sensuous geographic and similtaneously sere economic contexts in which her life was steeped to a maturity. All of it is written with the poet's eye for the telling detail, the arresting image, and the unexpected turn of a phrase:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Power of Mood, August 25, 2011

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This review is from: Hand of the Wind (Paperback)

Connolly's poems will entrance through multiple readings--the suppleness and surprise of their language, the versatility of their form, the layers of honesty and insight. The world they give birth to is authentically rural, often wild, where sharply observed animals and plants coexist with starkly remembered loss. It's a world that manifests again and again the ever-changing, nuanced, but potent truth of mood.

5.0 out of 5 stars How lovely to be elevated out of normal, mundane life, June 20, 2009

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Joanna Catherine Scott (Chapel Hill, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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"Hand of the Wind" is a tender, elegant collection, not one word wasted, not one image foggy, not one overdone. Geraldine Connolly has the ability to take an everyday experience and make of it a magical event. My favorite line: "Smoke curls, dear one. Wheels clack and turn."