The Direction of Longing
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“...McConnel's poetry starts deep in the skin and roams through her experiences as large as the Alaska she knows so well, into the depths of our dreams and longings....”
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The Direction of Longing
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“These poems make me unreasonably happy....McConnel forays into the farthest edges of thought....”—Eileen Duncan “McConnel’s work is reminiscent of a natural world and a simpler time few of us enjoy today. She sees with clear vision those small gestures of love, human strengths and foibles, wild landscapes and feral creatures and shares them joyfully through poetry.—Laurel Johnson
“... covers time and space, from childhood memories of the close warmth of “the family romance” in the south, to Alaska, Seattle, Mexico, California, youth, adulthood, marriage. And always the close relationships with animals, the wolves and the bears, the husky dogs, snakes, metaphors of wildness that seem to inhabit her like blood kin. A fabulous memory has stored in her the images and color she relays to us with passion, tenderness and wisdom.” —Beth Bentley, author of Phone Calls from the Dead; Field of Snow; Country of Resemblances
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