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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Allow Me: New and Selected Poems

Allow Me: New and Selected Poems

Willis, Irene

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 1956864172
ISBN13: 9781956864175
Publisher: Ipbooks
Published: Mar 28 2022
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Since receiving her first / rejection slip at the age of ten through her father's dismissal of women writers, Irene Willis has written past his disapproval, learning / my mother's language and drawing on the lives of both parents to craft memorable poems on gender, ageing, and mortality. As she acknowledges with wistfulness and humor my own end near, she considers the word deceased: I'm writing this / after names / in my address book. / It's better than / crossing them out, and recalls a poet who paid homage to her dog / by tasting its ashes. In poems praised previously by Maxine Kumin and Alicia Ostriker, Irene Willis conveys a life rich in its ordinariness and extraordinary in its loves. Through the decades-long making of these poems, that ten-year-old has come to recognize that her mind was hers, and hers alone.

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