Green Dialogue - by Irene Willis (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Irene Willis has written a book of poems that are so disarming, as if each poem was born out of an artlessness as elemental as spontaneous speech itself. But this is, of course, aesthetic artifice at its most refined, the art of getting out of one's own way as one writes, so that the dye on the dyer's hand is never noticed--Eugene Mahon. MD

Review Quotes

Irene Willis has written a book of poems that are so disarming, as if each poem was born out of an artlessness as elemental as spontaneous speech itself. But this is, of course, aesthetic artifice at its most refined, the art of getting out of one's own way as one writes, so that the dye on the dyer's hand is never noticed. "A poem is like a piece of ice on a hot stove: it rides on its own melting" Robert Frost said. But he never quite explained what it is the poet must do to simulate that wild ride on its own melting. "The poem is everywhere" Seferis said. But he never quite explained what it is the poet must do to distill that poetic essence which "is everywhere" and get it to imbue the words the poet must select to capture it. Irene Willis captures it in poem after poem that seem to flow from her pen effortlessly--Eugene Mahon. MD