Books: Poetry Collections by Ginny Lowe Connors
White Sail at Midnight
“. . . this jeweled mosaic, shivering slightly/in the breeze that wafts up from the lake. . .”
Connors is describing an orb spider’s web, the beads of rain on it shimmering in windblown sunlight, but the image serves as an apt emblem for this collection of poems about being mortal in a mortal world. Finely woven, out in the open, Ginny Lowe Connors’ poems catch the momentary light and shadow of transformations and survivals, sorrows and healings. Connors meets the world, “this unfathomable wildness,” with gratitude, terror, and wonder. Her poems are finely observed, deeply felt, offered to us with a quiet generosity. What can we do but meet them with a deep bow?
—Margaret Gibson, Connecticut Poet Laureate Emerita, author of The Glass Globe
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Without Goodbyes: From Puritan Deerfield to Mohawk Kahnawake
ISBN: 9781625493965
Carefully researched, deeply empathic, and convincing at every turn, this collection tracks the tensions and reconciliations that mark the transformation of a young girl kidnapped from her Puritan village and adopted by Native Americans in the early 1700’s. It flows easily as a narrative but should be read slowly for its deft, graceful descriptions of the outer landscapes of tribal community, weather, and the natural world alongside the complex inner landscape of Joanna Kellogg as she experiences the fading of her old life and a new one sending out tentative new shoots that take root over the years and bloom, as she does, in unexpected ways. – Leslie Ullman, author of Library of Small Happiness
Ginny Lowe Connors’ Without Goodbyes is a book so right for our times that it is must-reading. It is the riveting story of a young woman’s gradual realization that the word ‘savage’ is a racial slur so entirely unwarranted that it might better be applied to those who use it. But far more than a cautionary tale, the book is a wonderful read, the dramatic story of Joanna Kellogg, who becomes White Feather and slowly realizes that her new community of Mohawk people is in many ways more civilized and certainly more exciting than the community of Deerfield, Massachusetts, from which she was kidnapped during an "Indian raid." – Rennie McQuilkin, Connecticut State Poet Laureate, 201-2018
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You can sample some poems from the book here.
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Carefully researched, deeply empathic, and convincing at every turn, this collection tracks the tensions and reconciliations that mark the transformation of a young girl kidnapped from her Puritan village and adopted by Native Americans in the early 1700’s. It flows easily as a narrative but should be read slowly for its deft, graceful descriptions of the outer landscapes of tribal community, weather, and the natural world alongside the complex inner landscape of Joanna Kellogg as she experiences the fading of her old life and a new one sending out tentative new shoots that take root over the years and bloom, as she does, in unexpected ways. – Leslie Ullman, author of Library of Small Happiness
Ginny Lowe Connors’ Without Goodbyes is a book so right for our times that it is must-reading. It is the riveting story of a young woman’s gradual realization that the word ‘savage’ is a racial slur so entirely unwarranted that it might better be applied to those who use it. But far more than a cautionary tale, the book is a wonderful read, the dramatic story of Joanna Kellogg, who becomes White Feather and slowly realizes that her new community of Mohawk people is in many ways more civilized and certainly more exciting than the community of Deerfield, Massachusetts, from which she was kidnapped during an "Indian raid." – Rennie McQuilkin, Connecticut State Poet Laureate, 201-2018
Watch the book trailer here.
You can sample some poems from the book here.
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Toward the Hanging Tree: Poems of Salem Village
ISBN: 978-1-943826-10-0
I’ve never felt the terror and pathos of the Salem witchcraft story as deeply as I have after reading Ginny Connors’ masterful, carefully hewn poems centered on Sin (‘something coiled up and tight’)…. Empathy and major poetry skill combine to make Toward the Hanging Tree a gripping, illuminating recasting of our early American nightmare. --Dick Allen, Connecticut Poet Laureate 2010-2015
This is a never-before attempted, delightful collection of poems relating to the entire story of the Massachusetts witchcraft outbreak of 1692. Through Ginny Lowe Connors’ poetic artistry merged with solid research of historic facts, we glimpse the human heart’s response to terrifying events. --Richard Trask, historian, expert on the Salem Witch Trials
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To read sample poems, click on the link and scroll down: MORE on Toward The Hanging Tree
or check out the feature on the book that recently appeared in the Hartford Courant. This includes a couple of sample poems and some video.
This book is suitable for use in secondary classrooms. A free teacher's guide is available to educators. The book's price is steeply discounted when ordered in quantities of 15 or more. Ginny Connors is available for classrooms visits (fee is negotiable). Use the contact form on the home page for more information on ordering the book for classrooms, for arranging an author visit, or to request a teacher's guide.
The Unparalleled Beauty of a Crooked Line
Softcover: ISBN: 978-1-936482-32-0
Connor’s ear is pitch-perfect, and her poems make the reader grateful for a soul like hers, someone who names her two hands “Tenderness” and “Slaughter,” someone who knows unparalleled difficulty alongside unparalleled beauty. – Natasha Sajé
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Connor’s ear is pitch-perfect, and her poems make the reader grateful for a soul like hers, someone who names her two hands “Tenderness” and “Slaughter,” someone who knows unparalleled difficulty alongside unparalleled beauty. – Natasha Sajé
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Barbarians in the Kitchen
Softcover: ISBN: 0-9762091-4-4
Ginny Connors is a poet who can find beauty while remembering a dangerous childhood game or watching the way a drop of water falls. She is capable of molding words as she seeks to mold her children's wildness into civility, but she is most of all a poet ready to remind us of the beauty found in the quotidian, a poet who urges us never to let the world move beyond our reach. - Bessy Reyna
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Ginny Connors is a poet who can find beauty while remembering a dangerous childhood game or watching the way a drop of water falls. She is capable of molding words as she seeks to mold her children's wildness into civility, but she is most of all a poet ready to remind us of the beauty found in the quotidian, a poet who urges us never to let the world move beyond our reach. - Bessy Reyna
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Poetry Anthologies Edited by Ginny Lowe Connors
Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry
softcover, ISBN: 978-0-9962809-9-0
The subjects of the poems in this book are artists and scientists, sharp-
shooters and lighthouse keepers, factory workers, athletes, homemakers, and musicians. There are those who had brief windows of fame, and others who were or are completely anonymous. This remarkable anthology, including work by some of today’s most insightful poets, is sure to be valued by those who want to fill in the gaps of history, and make it herstory too.
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The subjects of the poems in this book are artists and scientists, sharp-
shooters and lighthouse keepers, factory workers, athletes, homemakers, and musicians. There are those who had brief windows of fame, and others who were or are completely anonymous. This remarkable anthology, including work by some of today’s most insightful poets, is sure to be valued by those who want to fill in the gaps of history, and make it herstory too.
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Laureates of Connecticut: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry
softcover, ISBN: 978-0-9982588-0-5
Ginny Lowe Connors and Charles Margolis, editors
This anthology is the product of twenty-four poets from seventeen towns in Connecticut who have been awarded the title of “Poet Laureate” in their communities. These individuals serve as public ambassadors for poetry, bringing it into the public realm. The collection presents the work of state and local poets laureate so that all can share in the transformative power of poetry.
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Ginny Lowe Connors and Charles Margolis, editors
This anthology is the product of twenty-four poets from seventeen towns in Connecticut who have been awarded the title of “Poet Laureate” in their communities. These individuals serve as public ambassadors for poetry, bringing it into the public realm. The collection presents the work of state and local poets laureate so that all can share in the transformative power of poetry.
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Where Flowers Bloom: Poems of Elizabeth Park
Softcover: ISBN: 978-0-9838603-0-3
Elizabeth Park, located in Hartford and West Hartford, Connecticut, is celebrated in this exquisite small collection of poems and photographs.
Limited number of copies are available through Elizabeth Garden office.
Elizabeth Park, located in Hartford and West Hartford, Connecticut, is celebrated in this exquisite small collection of poems and photographs.
Limited number of copies are available through Elizabeth Garden office.
Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems about Marriage
Hardcover: ISBN-13: 978-0967555454
Softcover: ISBN-13: 978-0967555461
In PROPOSING ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE, the reader will discover poems for weddings and anniversaries, along with reflections on nearly every aspect of married life. Like Connors' earlier anthology, ESSENTIAL LOVE, this book gives an in-depth look at a topic of nearly universal interest.
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Softcover: ISBN-13: 978-0967555461
In PROPOSING ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE, the reader will discover poems for weddings and anniversaries, along with reflections on nearly every aspect of married life. Like Connors' earlier anthology, ESSENTIAL LOVE, this book gives an in-depth look at a topic of nearly universal interest.
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To Love One Another: Poems Celebrating Marriage
Hardcover: ISBN-13: 978-0967555430
Softcover: ISBN-13: 978-0967555447
Midwest Book Review A compendium of superb poetry by a spectrum of poets…from Robert Hardy's "Falling" and Cathleen Calbert's "In Praise of My Young Husband" to E.D. Ehrhyart's "A Scientific Treatise for My Wife" and Leah Furnas' "The Longlyweds Know", To Love One Another is a collections of testaments to the wonder, hopes, desires, and realizations of the universal and enduring bond that is marriage.
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Softcover: ISBN-13: 978-0967555447
Midwest Book Review A compendium of superb poetry by a spectrum of poets…from Robert Hardy's "Falling" and Cathleen Calbert's "In Praise of My Young Husband" to E.D. Ehrhyart's "A Scientific Treatise for My Wife" and Leah Furnas' "The Longlyweds Know", To Love One Another is a collections of testaments to the wonder, hopes, desires, and realizations of the universal and enduring bond that is marriage.
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Essential Love: Poems about Mothers and Fathers, Daughters and Sons
Hardcover: ISBN-13: 978-0967555416
Softcover: ISBN-13: 978-0967555423
El Paso Times Essential Love . . . is an extravagant accumulation of work by poets who have touched the wonder of the modern family in its smallest beauties and its blackest sorrows.
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Softcover: ISBN-13: 978-0967555423
El Paso Times Essential Love . . . is an extravagant accumulation of work by poets who have touched the wonder of the modern family in its smallest beauties and its blackest sorrows.
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