Sea Change - Couverture souple

Elizabeth Simson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1599240378 ISBN 13 : 9781599240374

Editeur : Finishing Line Press, 2005

Synopsis

A chapbook of poems celebrating the transformation and growth that come during times of transition and loss, by award-winning poet Elizabeth Simson.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth Simson has been in love with poetry since her mother first read her "The Highwayman" as a child. Her poems have appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Atlanta Review, Kalliope, Comstock Review, and Earth's Daughters.

A 1996 graduate of Willamette University, Elizabeth received the National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar's Award. She is a member of OSPA and the International Women's Writing Guild (IWWG).

In addition to participating in local poetry venues, Elizabeth serves on the Board of Directors for Gertrude Press, a Portland-based literary and arts publication showcasing the creative talents of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and straight supportive writers. A feminist and first-generation German-American, Elizabeth writes to make sense of the world and her place in it. This is her first collection.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Driving cross-country, alone or with a skeleton sitting beside her, Elizabeth Simson knows where she's going and takes the reader along. Here is a poet whose voice is clear as she wanders the gardens and deserts of one woman's truth, where a cracked cup can still hold emotion, and "any new thing, be it wild, tangled, or small, is still possible." A powerful first book.

- Joyce La Mers

Elizabeth Simson is a superb poet, combining intellect with emotion. Her words go from love, to wound, to rage, to emptiness and back to promise. Her language skill "one-eyed tumbleweeds" is remarkable as is her keen perception of others, even herself.

-Elnora McNaughton

Sea Change by Elizabeth Simson, with its 19 spare poems, heralds a new voice which crisscrosses the recognizable terrain of Barstow, Los Angeles and Portland, with the terrain of the imagination where wide rivers "destined for an ancient ocean" jostle with "the bright breath on my back." Ms. Simson isn t afraid to ask, "how much of what we remember ceases to be true?" and to boldly state, "Look, here, this poem is proof "

The editors at Finishing Line Press are to be commended for publishing these fine poems, this unwavering clear voice.

-Jackson Wheeler

Elizabeth Simson s words are spare, honest and direct. She writes of losses, disappointments and joys in a way that is personal but will resonate with readers of all ages and experiences. Elizabeth s poems are, as with all good poems, rich with multiple layers of meaning and invited repeated readings.

Sea Change by Elizabeth Simson should be with your collection of fine poets.

-Doris Vernon

Elizabeth Simson's poems in Sea Change take us on the road across a continent, then down to the nitty-gritty of country life. Her imagery is rich, expansive, and yet contained in the smallest of details, coping with loss juxtaposed with everything alive - right down to peas in the garden.

-Shelley Savren

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"Remember Edward Hopper s painting Automat? That s where I am now. At a Flying-J mega-plex in Barstow, California, drinking coffee under trillion-watt fluorescents. For five days I ve been sleeping in Hideaway Cabins and Dutch Huts from New York to New Mexico. The whole time the road going by has sounded like the ocean, trucks, when they passed, like waves coming in .

It has been a long trip. In Arizona I stopped and bought you this postcard of a giant jackrabbit. The sky that day was as blue as in the picture, the jackrabbit ceramic, his saddle horn higher than my shoulder.

At first I thought I couldn't do this alone. Now I realize that another human being is poor insurance against loneliness, and anyway, loneliness is patient and gentle and doesn't demand very much."

Excerpt from Cross-Country

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Finishing Line Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1599240378
• ISBN 13: 9781599240374
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 30
• Éditeur: Leah Maines
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible