“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
In her first collection of poetry, Carolyn Keith Hopper shares what it feels like to be out in quiet places of natural beauty. With subject matters ranging from birds to flowers to celestial wonders and many other ponderings in between, Poems from a Wild Heart is a reflective compilation about life, love, and loss in the great outdoors.
“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 journalist
“In these intimate and lush pages, we journey with the author (at once daughter, mother, wife, and woman) as she searches for her inner wilderness, her true nature . . . summoning the world of rivers, mountains, flora, and fauna to guide her to what she seeks most: liberation."
—Laura Munson, New York Times bestselling author of This Is Not the Story You Think It Is and founder of Haven Writing Retreats