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poems from two books: A Cure for Backache (1977) and A Marriage Pact and Other Poems (1983), as well as 30 previously unpublished poems.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.

Author: Rebecca Winning
Publisher: Indian Paintbrush Poets
Published: 04/30/2025
Pages: 92
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d
ISBN: 9781735773131


Review Citation(s):
BlueInk Review 08/12/2025
Booklist 10/01/2025

About the Author
Winning, Rebecca: - Rebecca Winning grew up in Springfield, Illinois. She received a BA in English from DePauw University in 1974, attended creative writing classes at Sangamon State University, and received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Denver in 1979. Her book, A Cure for Backache and Other Poems was published in the Sangamon Poets series in 1977; a second book, A Marriage Pact and Other Poems was published by Moonsquilt Press in 1983. For thirty years, she worked in large corporations doing Investor Relations; for the last ten years of her career, she did Community Engagement and Strategy for Jefferson County Public Library. Now retired, she lives in Littleton, Colorado with her husband Jack, and is able to devote more time to her writing. Learn more at RebeccaWinningWriter.wordpress.com.