Description
Poetry. "Artists make worlds. The world created by poet Irene Mitchell in FEVER is a world of questioning. The answers provided are found in thoughts emerging from the quotidian, becoming transcendental—thus evoking the hidden cosmic places where our minds wander. These poems report from singular landscapes in Mitchell's sensual realm. Her inquisitiveness turns to introspection and finally suggests a world of possibilities. It is through possibility, then, that we are covered. We live in times of uncertainty: the comfort of a multitude of technologies often creates false reassurance wherein the power of language is almost forgotten. However, in Irene Mitchell's poetry, this power is very much alive, and we are invited to explore the vivid dwellings she offers us as readers. Her poems are a refuge from our uneasy lives. They are poems that show us worlds in which, 'after the long tyranny of school is over,' we can find answers to our existential wanderings and wonderings."—Daniela Bertol
Author Bio
Irene Mitchell, a long-time teacher of English and Writing in inner city and rural New York, is the author of CLERESTORY (Sod Madres Press, 2020), FEVER (Dos Madres Press, 2019), Equal Parts Sun and Shade: An Almanac of Precarious Days (Aldrich Press, 2017), Minding the Spectrum's Business (FutureCycle Press, 2015), A Study of Extremes in Six Suites (Cherry Grove Collections, 2012), and Sea Wind on the White Pillow (Axes Mundi Press, 2009. Formerly Poetry Editor of Hudson River Art Magazine, Mitchell is known for her collaborations with visual artists and composers. Her poems have been presented for gallery exhibition as a series of broadsides, the text incorporated into the artwork. Mitchell's poetry has also been set to music for piano and voice in cycles of art-song, the marriage of music and poetry. Her earliest correspondence with poetry scholars is included in the final year's collection of the Aylesford Mss., archived in Indiana University's Lilly Library. Mitchell was a 2019 Associate Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
Author City: SCHODACK LANDING, NY USA