The Nature of It by Georgette Unis

Georgette Unis is the author of two books of poetry, Watercolors in the Desk Drawer (2022) and Tremors (2018.)  Several literary journals also published her poetry. Her presentation of Sounding the Metaphor is available on YouTube. She draws inspiration for her artwork and poetry from the Sierra mountains and forests, which serve as the metaphorical backdrop for relationships with family, friends and aspects of herself. georgetteunis.com

 

PRAISE:

 

With the hand of a sculptor, Georgette Unis gives us a multi-sided form to explore in this latest presentation of richly crafted poetry.  The architecture of each piece is carefully constructed so the structure becomes one for the ages—relevant today and into the future. Every word is chosen, important and specific for its meaning and relevance to the topic, wide and varied as she shares her love of trees, the natural environment, the desert as well as those people close to her and their place in her life.  These matters “taunt her thirsty eyes” as she lays them out in a literary landscape “in Monet’s blue.” She is an artist advising young painters, a keen observer of the natural world, mankind, and sensitive to the difficulties of life, confronting the unexpected in her new role as a caretaker, described so well in “The Cedar Fence.”  She shares the experience with her brother and his devastating ski accident.  And she asks us to partake in “silence to honor the mystery of one being birthing another.” Her multi-sided form is clear, direct, deep, a joy to absorb and contemplate.

–VERONICA MICHALOWSKI,  Artist, Designer, Poet

 

 

In Georgette Unis’The Nature of It, the title says it all. She finds strength in the company of trees, the renewal of natural cycles. Afternoon winds harmonize the unique /timbres of lodgepole and Jeffrey pines/…each a member of an ancient choir. She finds quiet moments of communion. Thoughts flit as birds branch to branch. She explores the lives of loved ones, friends, neighbors, pets, and other animals from the inside, always gentle, non-judgmental and personal. In an emergency room, a bedside or at home, dealing with the displaced, the infirm, even the departed, Unis struggles to come to terms with life and with death. Time and again, she turns to the outside world, to the flowers and dawns, to the deserts and dusks, to anchor her understandings. I yearn for a sacred mother/ to wrap her cloak around us. Her painter’s eye, her sense of color and shadow in subtle transition, inform these meditations and form them into wonder-filled poems.

–Bill Baynes, a Sierra foothills poet published in various literary journals.