The South
Colm Tóibín, 4 August 1994
“... would burn as if the water were a transmutation of fire that feeds on stones and burns with a dark gray flame. She shared with Hemingway a fierce simplicity, a use of words in which the emotion appears to be hidden, to lurk mysteriously in the space between the words. The search for pure accuracy in her poems forced her to watch the world helplessly, as ... ”