The Willing Eye is the first book to be published in Britain by Tracy Ryan, one of Australia's finest younger poets. In these powerful poems, the nettle sting, the splinter, the milk tooth and the lovebite, the act of translation, are borderline experiences that become sacramental, whilst physical states - myopia, childbirth, speed, prostration - create their own knowledge as vital as what the eye takes in and the heart grieves over. The Willing Eye is a book open to the shocks and pleasures of seeing and daily life, driven by a fascination with the shifting and precarious boundaries between self and world. The poems are moulded by passage through the channels that we "will" upon our bodies: the eye that is a mouth that is an aperture. Inwards and outwards are collapsed until it is as much the landscape in the figure as the figure in the landscape.
- ISBN10 1863682392
- ISBN13 9781863682398
- Publish Date 15 March 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 January 2012
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Fremantle Press
- Imprint Fremantle Arts Centre Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 88
- Language English