Poetry. "Artists make worlds. The world created by poet Irene Mitchell in FEVER is a world of questioning. The answers provided are found in thoughts emerging from the quotidian, becoming transcendental--thus evoking the hidden cosmic places where our minds wander. These poems report from singular landscapes in Mitchell's sensual realm. Her inquisitiveness turns to introspection and finally suggests a world of possibilities. It is through possibility, then, that we are covered. We live in times of uncertainty: the comfort of a multitude of technologies often creates false reassurance wherein the power of language is almost forgotten. However, in Irene Mitchell's poetry, this power is very much alive, and we are invited to explore the vivid dwellings she offers us as readers. Her poems are a refuge from our uneasy lives. They are poems that show us worlds in which, 'after the long tyranny of school is over, ' we can find answers to our existential wanderings and wonderings."--Daniela Berto