Food for the Winter

"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