It Could Drive You Crazy Author:Marilyn Bates Marilyn Bates attributes her love for the outdoors--with which she begins this collection--to those quiet afternoon of shelling peas under osage orange trees with her grandmother or digging in her own small patch next to her father's garden. Their psyches, delicately connected like roots beneath the soil bear fruit in this poetry. Most pa... more »inful of all experiences is diabetes, which links her to her father. Her disease lies palpably under all these poems. "It Could Drive You Crazy" is the title poem which underscores her daily struggle with her condition. But this is also a collection of works about hope, the succor in life--raspberries rolling on the tongue, the sexual life of an older woman, , watching zinnias, those "shameful hussies of the garden."« less