Nature's Grace

Edward L. Edmonds is a professor of English at the University of Prince
Edward Island.

This cross-section of Carolyn Zonailo’s many poetic talents succeeds
admirably. Zonailo can be lyrical and exquisitely sensuous in one poem,
and then caustic, satirical, and downright polemical in the next. Nature
for her may have a Wordsworthian gentleness, as in “The View from My
Window,” or an aura of restless apprehension, as in “The Wild Woman
of the Woods.” The sequence of pen portraits is shrewd, short,
penetrating, nostalgic. The poet’s style of presentation is engagingly
eyecatching. Consistently she recaptures the short rhythms, the
vocabulary, and the tangential asides of everyday conversation.
Published in a limited edition of 500 copies, this book is strongly
recommended as a collector’s piece.