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Gretchen Schafer Skelley’s first book, A Wheel in a Wheel, is steeped in a sense of the redemptive powers in the natural world, be it the world of rivers, mountains, or Tibi the Cat. There is much playfulness in these poems but also a dark side, a sense of love’s fragility. In the end, however, darkness is dispelled by faith in the “eternal sun” which undoes even death. Kathleen McGrory, President Emerita of Hartford College for Women, has said this of the book: “Elemental yet transcendent, Gretchen Skelley’s poetry dips and soars into the stuff of everyday life, transforming it. Gretchen Schafer Skelley was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. She was educated at the Chaffee School and Connecticut College for Women, where she was the first recipient of the Benjamin T. Marshall Prize for Poetry. While raising a family she was active in educational affairs, both in her daughters’ school and at Chaffee. She was for some time a guide at Nook Farm, which comprises the homes of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain. Her main occupation was as a teacher of Hatha Yoga at Hartford College for Women and in the Hartford and Simsbury areas. She now lives in West Hartford with her cat. She has always thought that poets should be young, tall and willowy. She is none of these things, but her cat loves her anyway. Click here to read sample poems from A Wheel in a Wheel |
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BOOK STATISTICS ISBN 978-0-9843418-9-4
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