BIBFRAME Work

Title

How to sing for money

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Wanek, Connie, 1952- (author)

Subject

• American poetry--21st century (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Poésie (RVMGF)
• Poetry (LCGFT)
• poetry (AAT)

Language

• eng

Classification

LCC: PS3573.A47686

Content

• text

Summary

"In her new collection, poet Connie Wanek reflects on the recent death of her mother, continues the series of Mrs. God poems that enlivened her previous collection, Consider the Lilies, and ensnares us in the kind of whimsical meandering the deeper significance of which often strikes us only after the fact. In “Tennis Lessons,” for example, she relates the various instructions being given by the “pro,” many of which— Relax,” “Don’t Think,” “Remove imperfections”—could easily carry a deeper meaning. The poem arrives at a hilarious conclusion: “Ideally, after the lesson I could be someone else altogether.” In another poem an old friend appears in the poet’s dreams to tell her she’s started smoking again—something she hadn’t dared to do when she was alive. Wanek shares her mother’s advice about medicine—you could tell how well it was working by how much it hurt. There are gentle words, too, about her father, a soldier in his youth, who chose to be buried in a distant cemetery with his comrades rather than close to home, near his family. Well, it was free. Along with the rich detail and understated humor, there’s a subtlety and ease in these lines that’s rare. Wanek is confident that we’ll catch her drift."-- Provided by the publisher.

Table of Contents

The Wedding of Adam and Eve -- A Nest of Hares -- Old at Heart -- Your Lucky Day -- The Time of Letters -- Tennis Lesson -- Fossil -- Hankie -- Background -- Smoking Again -- Cleaning Out Mom's Second to Last House -- Pomeranian Lady -- Eternal Wealth -- All at Once or a Little at a Time -- Mom's Ideas About Medicine -- Toll Road -- Cashmere -- Evidence of Virtue -- A Tiny House -- Running After My Mother -- Rush Hour -- Avocados -- Shuffle -- Unlearning to Walk -- Cobbler -- Power of Attorney -- Emails -- How to Raise a Parent -- A Little Red Wine -- The Lesser Goldfinch -- Beauty -- Winter Sparrows -- Dowling Gardens -- For a Change -- Tennis Years -- The Last of August Garden -- Mulberries in the Park -- Old Duluth -- Talking to Dad -- Rain Changing to Snow -- Selling Our Books -- Ghost Town in the Black Range -- Sweat -- Rain Gauge -- What Do We Do About Fathers' Day After Our Fathers Die? -- The Accident -- An Anniversary -- Sleep -- Last Time I Saw Her -- Peach Tree -- Clearance -- Free Pens -- The Death Spectrum -- Yet It Will Come -- Executor -- What Happens -- Mountain Bluebirds -- Afterword.

Authorized Access Point

Wanek, Connie, 1952-. How to sing for money

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30T17:47:13.861746+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24134945

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc