Title: Corresponding flowers
Description: This beautiful prose poem by California poet Julia Connor traces a woman's trasformation from a decomposing marriage, through a near death experience, to a resurgent promise of life as told through a subtle correspondences with specific flowers and vistas.  Poet Diane DiPrima calls Connor "...a strong and powerful voice...depicting areas of human experience, and in particular the female experience, in a unique and powerful way."
Subjects: Julia Connor, poet, prose poem, Corresponding Flowers, metaphor, contemporary poetry, California poets, women poets
Places: California, Central Valley
People: Julia Connor
Time periods: 1980's