Lou Barrett: 4 books

Lou Barrett has enjoyed a long, rewarding career as a teacher of literature and writing. Honored at Wesleyan University (2005) by the Connecticut Council of Teachers of English, she was a past winner of Connecticut Poetry Society's Winchell Award. Her poems appear in Midstream, Connecticut River Review,...

Lou Barrett's poetry collection, Doors, Gates and Portals, carries us into real life passages. The reader enters into ancient and mythical worlds to discover personal tensions that exist in Twentieth Century family life. Eve, constricted in the Garden of Eden, seeks freedom from safe gates confining...

In this gathering of poems, award-winning poet Lou Barrett connects childhood with youth, youth with maturity, maturity with age and wisdom. She connects generation with generation, past with present, present with future, person with person. No poet embraces life more openly, more passionately, more...

In her latest collection of poetry, entitled Home Delivery, Lou Barrett returns to familiar themeslove, loss, the beauty and the terror of the world, the search for lost time. Her resilient spirit demands that, at age ninety-one, she continue to write a script of amazement and indignation lest the...