Before We Had Pockets: Uncollected Poems and Essays by Irene Willis
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“Irene Willis wrote and assembled Before We Had Pockets: Uncollected Poems and Essays not long before she died in 2026 at the age of 96. The vitality of the collection speaks through age and remembrances, and as I read it I felt Willis living in every word she wrote. Read this book with your heart and senses and intellect ready to receive it all. There is nothing maudlin it, and there is plenty of wit. The book will reward and, perhaps, prepare you for your own sense of ‘old.’” —DAVI GIANNINI, author of Lamp of Whispers / New and Selected Prosepoems
“Confronting the end of her life with wry acceptance and droll insight, Irene Willis turns our attention to nursery rhymes, to beloved dogs, to grief over the vengeful world, in unpretensious language that never fails to sing.”
—LISKEN VAN PELT DUS, author of How∙Many Hands to Home
“These poems are a form of nourishment. Feast.”
—DOUG ANDERSON, author of There Was Always Smoke
