Instructions at Sunset

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>Geraldine Connolly's </span><em style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>Instructions at Sunset </em><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>instructs us</span><em style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)> </em><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>about why we love poetry-the sensuality evoked throughout by the warmth of the sun the scent of underbrush and the simmer of dinner on the stove-images gifted us so we also live these rare moments. And surprises too when Connolly's</span><em style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)> noticing </em><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>transforms suddenly into meaning and we draw a breath. Many poets rely on the pain-of-the-past for deep feelings but this is a book about the present the startling brilliant present caught exactly as it happens for the reader to know the splendor of living in the best possible air.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>     </span><strong style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>-</strong><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>Grace Cavalieri</span><strong style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)></strong><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)> Maryland's tenth Poet Laureate</span></p><p></p>