All You Can Do: A book of poetry NOW AVAILABLE!

The trouble with poetry, according to Billy Collins, is that reading it makes you want to write more poetry. Shirley Wilsey has been writing poetry for most of her life, committing poems like secret sins and hiding them in desk drawers, notebooks, and computer files. With this volume, she lets her poetic muse out of the closet.

One problem with poetry today is that too many readers and some poets assume that obscurity is a virtue. Poems, like any other attempt to communicate, should at least aim to be accessible. These poems are meant to be read by any reasonably literate, reasonably patient, reasonably kind person.

A falcon, a finch, a twisted pine, a purple petunia, a mean or moody mother, a fractious or fetching child—each of us sees ordinary things from his or her own unique angle; each of us assigns to them his or her own unique meaning. These poems are one person’s attempt to make sense of what she sees and feels. But, in the end, they were written for you.

 

All You Can Do will be available to ship on or before January 31, 2016.

BUY NOW and we will ship as soon as its hot off the press. You may purchase up to four (4) copies at the low shipping and handling cost of $6.00. Please contact me for shipping cost for bulk or educational rates.

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Like a Szymborska from Minnesota, Shirley Wilsey writes with humor and humanity about the pains and pleasures of life. Moving from the happy accidents of childhood through the flights and chills of the present to the epiphanies of old age and death, this poet dances us through with grace—always shining her light on the “…bits of colored glass / In God’s kaleidoscope” that make up the shifting patterns of our days. Trust Wilsey. She lays out her poems with skill and welcome clarity, and reading this collection is a reminder that “Though each of us is / Painfully alone / We’re all in this together.”

     — J Diego Frey, author of “The Year the Eggs Cracked”