Bøker av Carolyn Keith Hopper

"Carolyn Hopper's Connections is artfully convergent. From faraway to close by; in adoration of wildness and by admissions of affection for every other living being, her words bring together passion and purpose across continents and countries, over landscapes and through conversations with assorted living beings. Poetry and prose meld-connecting us to her world of wonder." -J Drew Lanham, 2022 Poet Laureate Fellow and award-winning author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature¿¿¿¿¿¿Fall in love with the wild in this beautifully crafted collection of poems and essays.¿¿¿Carolyn Keith Hopper has a deep appreciation of and love for the natural world-whether in the mountain forests around her home in Montana or on the Galápagos Islands, where living beings as old and strange as time invite her into their sphere. Sometimes it's a monastery bell atop towering fingers of rock or a bird song hidden in a jungle that inspires her work. Other times it's the silence and scent of the forest after a rain, or the excitement of racing across rolling prairie.Lyrical and perceptive, the poems and essays in Connections will inspire you to spend time in nature, to catch the songs of bears, forests, and rivers. Hopper's fourth book transports you to places across the globe and invites you to experience the beauty of the wild.

"In Fishing with My Father, Carolyn Hopper has penned a moving valentine to the most influential man in her life-a meditation on the current of life to which all daughters and their dads can relate. So seldom do we see stories so richly connected to the bond between father, daughter, and angling water."-Todd Wilkinson, award-winning Montana author and journalistTwo years after her father passed away, Carolyn discovered letters her father and his father wrote to each other, providing her a glimpse into a man she realized she didn't know. These letters, combined with the lyrics of a song she heard on the ride home from her father's memorial service, stirred in Carolyn an intense desire to know her father on a deeper level and question whether he ever really knew her. Following her father's example, Carolyn writes her own letters to him that ultimately result in the resolution within herself of a lifetime of feeling that she never measured up to her dad's unspoken benchmark for her. Throwing off the bowlines of self-limiting beliefs, Carolyn finds liberation and finally allows herself to relish and connect with the legacy her father left her-as she meets him in every river she fishes.