KEY WEST, TRANSIT OF VENUS is a volume of poems and paintings, a celebration and meditation on love and beauty created by a poet and painter who loves the special light and soft air of this island. The book contains forty-two poems and color plates of sixteen paintings. The love poems are mostly about her husband; the collection includes poems addressed to her father, her son, Key West, the ocean, the moon and the planets. Since Potter is an amputee, she also brings the consciousness of one who is physically challenged to her love of the sea. Rosalind Brackenbury, poet, novelist and reviewer, writes: "The bold clarity of Rosanne Potter's paintings is reflected in the poems in this beautiful collection. Potter is a fine lyric poet with a painter's eye for color and detail, a strong sense of form and an abiding ironic intelligence. Whether she is writing of life in her Key West back yard or of the movement of planets, she jolts us into a new sense of awareness and wonder." Elsa Colligan comments of Potter: "She takes us on an intimate journey into her world of color, nature and passion... This is an intense and dazzling collection." If this book must be shipped, please add $2.50 to price.