Memories of Green
“Erin Ganaway's Memories of Green reflects a complex mind, both elegiac and celebratory, dark and illuminating. Ganaway is unafraid of subtle ornament: her words--particularly her verbs--compel the reader's imagination into new territories, just as she illumines the depths of her own seasonal experience in a deeply imaginal and imaginative way. In Ganaway's world, experience does not equal mere transcription, but the challenge of finding connective tissues that both freight and lighten human experience. Metaphors are always surprising, and aural imagery blooms beyond the page, as do other imageries, creating half-lives that allow her poems to reside in the mind long after they are read… a beautiful addition to Ganaway's growing body of poetry, a poetry I consider important to American letters.”
--William Wright
The Waiting Girl
The Waiting Girl explores the exterior and interior landscapes as they apply to identity, specifically celebrating the Appalachian South and Cape Cod. The poems in this collection carry readers from the cracked red earth of Georgia to the cobblestone streets of Nantucket. Through these bold environments, Ganaway delves into the nuances of mania and melancholia, illuminating their bittersweet nature, and raising awareness of these still largely misunderstood states of being.