Allow Me: New and Selected Poems

by Irene Willis

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. /...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1956864172
• ISBN13: 9781956864175
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Ipbooks
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"