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A Cartography of Peace 
Poems by Jean L. Connor

Soft Cover with flaps, 96 pages
Cover price: $13.95

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Jean L. Connor began writing poems after retiring from a long career as a librarian in New York State. She lives and writes at Wake Robin retirement community in Shelburne, Vermont. The poems in A Cartography of Peace, written between her 75th and 85th year, honor the “width of time” that comes at this stage of life, and reflect the clarity of vision developed through her lifelong meditative practice. United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser selected one of Connor’s poems for inclusion in his 2005 series, American Life in Poetry. She won the 2001 Passager Poetry Contest.
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Poet Jean L. Connor signs a copy of her book, A Cartography of Peace

Praise for A CARTOGRAPHY OF PEACE:

"Peace, for this superb poet, is our ability to make sense out of fear, to make care and feeling from our own inescapable, insatiable needs." —Rafael Campo, Washington Post Book World (Read the article)

"She has the rare gift of being able to startle us with equipoise, sometimes even with bemusement.” —Stephen Dunn

“Whatever the price of A Cartography of Peace, it’s a fraction of what the book will be worth to a reader. These are poems to get you through the winter, move you through the dark, and help you love the world again. Jean Connor’s pure and modest singing reminds me why I came to poetry in the first place.” —David Huddle

“Only some art knows how to teach us how to live, and in a way that we are willing, ardently willing, to be taught. Jean Connor’s A Cartography of Peace is that kind of book. By turns “wildly admiring” or “sitting beneath the tutelage of the dark,” these poems take hold of me and sit me down in an attention to both language and the natural world that is riveting and wrought, silence-filled and sublime. “Time to read/ something old/ deeper than August,” says the speaker in one poem. Yes. Indeed. Right here. This whole book.” —Robin Behn

“These poems have the clarity and stillness of a fresh snowfall, yet they are so generous in their attention to the “small things” of the world that they are anything but chilly. Connor’s eye and remarkable ear create a space in which the reader stops in wonder at this poet’s ability to evoke the evanescent details of observable life, and at her bravery in facing the unanswerable questions at life’s invisible heart. Reading this book is a meditative act; the reader will return to its gifts of quiet, of music and unpretentious wisdom.” —Joan Aleshire




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