The poetry of Eileen Berry distills recollection into its essence,
and this present collection reminds us once again of how good she
is at this. As she plunges into deepest memory, her images are so
powerful, we are helpless not to go with her. We are in the house
at Marshside, "always cold especially in summer when no fires were
lit, and the air felt thin;" we are there in the dry, overheated
desert; we are at the funeral when there was "a silence . . . more
full than sound." Eileen Berry provides for us a time and place
that we did not know but through her unerring pitch and exquisite
language, we feel is now ours.
Stella Suberman, author of two memoirs
published by Algonquin Books,
The Jew Store and When It Was Our War
This is a wonderfully peculiar collection of poems. It takes the
reader back to a set of scenes on a particular English sea marsh in
years gone by. And then, the same evocative vocabulary and turn of
phrase takes the reader to a suk in the northern Sudan. How these
poems, these collective narratives of stories so personal, hold
together is marvelous and only possible because they come from the
voice of a singular author - Eileen Berry.
Dr. Sonia Perez Villanueva
Williams College
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