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In America many elderly people are made invisible, but the poems in D. Walsh Gilbert's collection bring one such individual vividly into focus. In poems such as "Mary's Disorderly Conduct, " "Mary Opens the Window, " and "Mary Faces Firebrand and Ember, " we see Mary as vulnerable, stubborn, vivacious-uniquely herself. In "Mary Receives Treatment, " she refuses to look at her wound or at the doctor. "Not-looking is an absence / which has held ...

This is a fictional verse-story of Ann Gallagher, also known as Dill, jailed in 1850s Ireland-just one little girl trying to make her way in the world even as the evils of famine, nationalism, and anti-Catholicism conspire to test her courage and restrain her from finding her true Irish roots. She is jailed for the crime of stealing a parsnip. In Kilmainham Gaol she meets Tommy, a boy who will eventually be exiled to Australia, and Róisín, a f...

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