Key West, Transit Of Venus: Poems And Paintings

KEY WEST, TRANSIT OF VENUS is a volume of poems and paintings, a celebration and meditation on love and beauty created by a poet and painter who loves the special light and soft air of this island; her work in both media arises from the place. As poet Elsa Colligan writes on the back “Rosanne Potter conveys her love for Key West, going far beyond sunsets, palm trees & Duval Street.” The book contains forty-two poems and color plates of sixteen paintings. The love poems are mostly about her husband; the collection includes poems addressed to her father, her son, Key West, the ocean, the moon and the planets. Since Potter is an amputee, she also brings the consciousness of one who is physically challenged to her work. Rosalind Brackenbury, poet, novelist and reviewer, “The bold clarity of Rosanne Potter’s paintings is reflected in the poems in this beautiful collection. Potter is a fine lyric poet with a painter’s eye for color and detail, a strong sense of form and an abiding ironic intelligence. Whether she is writing of life in her Key West back yard or of the movement of planets, she jolts us into a new sense of awareness and wonder.” Elsa Colligan comments of “She takes us on an intimate journey into her world of color, nature and passion. Her paintings compliment the poems opening up one dimension after another, giving the reader that extra jolt of emotional response. This is an intense and dazzling collection.”