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Getting Under Way: New & Selected Poems

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Colette Inez is one of the few poets who can transform her personal history so that it becomes as powerful as the stories we hand down from generation to generation. Sad and inspiring, Inez's central theme is her struggle to comprehend and imagine her parents, a scholar and a priest, who abandoned her to a Catholic orphanage in Brussels and eventually foster homes in the United States. As a survivor of abandonment and alcoholic abuse, Inez is especially sensitive to finding those small moments that keep us alive, that give us hope, that allow us to look at the worst of life and move beyond it. She writes of the passion of her parents; the austere life of orphans; the love she has for her own husband; the great artists who inspire her; and the nature of animals, angels, and trees. Those who admire poetry will find Inez a graceful writer who knows how to find just the right words and images to convey difficult personal history so that it never becomes sentimental, so that it gains its own mythic power. Those who have suffered abuse, no matter the source, will see Inez as a survivor of great courage.

I would just like to say that i recently got the oppurtunity to meet Mrs. Inez at a high school poetry competetion and she is every bit as graceful and enlightening as her poetry---