Lullaby of Love

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>Rebecca Winning gives the reader unique poems filled with seeable images mystery personal loves and glimpses of nature. These poems are best read with time to ponder perhaps when drinking a coffee or tea. They are to be savored like eating a really rich piece of chocolate cake. Every poem leaves me with a smile or a tear wanting answers wanting more. A joy to read.? Barb Schwegman author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>Nightwalking</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>Poems of Central America</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Rebecca Winning's poems have a way planting you - in a sisterly relationship in a blind man's skin in a Colorado landscape in Spring - that puts you in the center of the seed makes a garden of the world that surrounds you and makes that world impossible not to celebrate. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>This garden these parties of her poems reach far wide and deep in every direction - you never know where they'll take you. And you never want to leave. ? </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bruce Gelfand writer teacher coach and editor of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Brighter the Light Deeper the Shadow</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p>Rebecca Winning's <em>Lullaby of Love: Selected Poems</em> takes you on a journey through her midwestern upbringing relationships deep connection with the natural world and meditations on finding meaning. It includes previously published poems from her early years including poems from two books: <em>A Cure for Backache </em>(1977) and <em>A Marriage Pact and Other Poems</em> (1983) as well as 30 previously unpublished poems. The poems offer deeply personal reflections on love loss family marriage infidelity divorce healing aging death and new beginnings. Each poem crystallizes a point-in-time that celebrates the mystery and wonder of our everyday lives. Fans of Mary Oliver and Jane Hirshfield will appreciate her simple language and striking imagery as she explores themes of human frailty and connection reverence for the natural world and the intersection of the seen and unseen. Her book is a meditation on finding one's best self and living in harmony with ? and gratitude for ? the interconnectedness we all share. </p>