Lullaby of Love: Selected Poems

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 Nightwalking and Poems of Central America

"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. 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." ― Bruce Gelfand, writer, teacher, coach and editor of Brighter the Light, Deeper the Shadow

Rebecca Winning's Lullaby of Love: Selected Poems, 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poems from two books: A Cure for Backache (1977) and A Marriage Pact and Other Poems (1983), as well as 30 previously unpublished poems.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.