Anne Waters Green
Anne Waters Green
Poet , Book Lover, Perennial Student
New Book: Coming Soon
"The Watchful Eye” will be available online April 17 from Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
The Watchful Eye
Anne Waters Green’s compelling new book of poems, The Watchful Eye, rewards the reader with the offering of incisive, pithy, straightforward poems. The voice is clear, devoid of sentiment, and older, in the best sense, in that it carries the gravitas of having lived many years. The poems range over landscapes, many southern, from Georgia to the Carolinas, illuminating the natural world with its “queue of turtles,” fireflies, (“its lamp-lit tail frantic,”) its hummingbirds, wrens, cormorants, pelicans, “huddling deer,” and the details of its landscapes, “salt-pruned oaks.” The images tucked into these poems celebrate the natural world with marvelous phrasing.
— Tina Barr, author of Pink Moon
"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language".
—W. H. Auden
Praise for the Watchful Eye
“Anne Waters Green’s watchful eye captures both the smallest detail and the greatest majesty of the natural world. But she doesn’t overlook the peaks and valleys of the human world. Insightful as well as watchful, she shows how people and nature connect and reflect each other as when she describes ‘anhinga feathers displayed like piano keys.’ These lovely poems are as clear as a mountain stream and as expressive as a Chopin prelude.”
— Eric Nelson, author of Horse Not Zebra
“There is a spirit and a lively mind behind these poems informed by art, history, religion, nature, and family lore. A turn in a trail or of a season, a hawk on a wire or a constellation are invitations to pause, to reflect on the grace all around us, what’s been given, what’s been lost and how much is left to discover.”
— Laura Davenport, author of Dear Vulcan
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