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Food for the Winter

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In Food for the Winter,Geraldine Connolly recovers the lost world of childhood in the years ofsmall-town America following World War II. The prevailing imagery is that offire, the fire of bombing recollected, the fire of Roman Catholicism, of riflesand steel mills, candles and cigarettes, fires both intellectual and physical,fires of emotion and spirit. Connolly's collection fixes the past and itslosses in place then moves from girlhood themes into the emergence of womanhoodand its passions. The book's real subject is love and the rich and variedpossibilities of human relationships. The rites of passages become more thanthose of an individual life, achieving an identity that both records aparticular moment in time yet transcends a particular human body and names usall as suffers of experience and enjoyers of perceptions.
Geraldine Connolly is the author of a chapbook, The Red Room, and her work has appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, and other quarterlies. She teaches in the Maryland Poetry-in-the-Schools program.
"In her impressive first collection, Geraldine Connolly offers us poems that reflect an enviable grace and poignancy. We see, in the poems of her Pennsylvania childhood, the constellation of the family flickering in the ever-darkening sky of the past. And as the speaker moves through youth and adulthood, these poems carry us as well into those familiar regions of difficult reckoning. This is a quiet, yet consistently moving and accomplished debut."--David St. John ". . . an exemplary first book." Booklist ". . . captures the very feel of childhood in all its intensity." --Linda Pastan "Geraldine Connolly is a poet of the family scene and the family romance, fixing the past in place, re-animating the theater of childhood, storage, storing up food - spiritual food - against the winter ahead. Her accomplished first book rises from a true depth of feeling, discovering the imagination's radiant light, affirming what John Keats called 'the holiness of the Heart's affections.'" --Edward Hirsch "There is continuity in art just as there is in family life. Geraldine Connolly has written a marvelous celebration of both." West Branch
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