Elizabeth Bishop

"Here is a smorgasbord of poetry. The offerings here represent a compendium of old and new works written within the last five years. All are from the inspired works of poet Elizabeth Martina Bishop who has been writing since the age of seven years old. Many of the poems selected here can lend readers a collage of witness extending the extemporaneous aspects of her works that range from lyric to narrative poems. Some of the poems deliberately offer...

"Poet and author, Elizabeth Martina Bishop, has fashioned a well-crafted work that demonstrates a provocative and thematic text. The book you now hold in your hand possesses an ambiance indicative of the divine feminine. Looking at ways of living in the world and approaching new paths that deepen and develop a voice of witness in the wilderness is what this book is all about. It will open your mind and delight your heart."--Back cover.

"Bishop's poems in this volume include multiple projections of dark and light embedded in mirrors operating within the inner realms as transcendent reminders of the possibility of the exploration of body mind and spirit. Her poems range from transcendent images that spin and astonish with a luminous enjoyment of the senses. It is a kind of slam poetry that is more charming than what one at first thinks of. It is not easy hallmark card kind of poetry....

"A folkloric portrait of a woman waiting by various gates for her beloved who may never arrive. The locations depicted in the text are considered in a visionary and fictional manner. Part dream, part reverie the quilt of stories supports tribal voices heard in the region of Moorish ƯƯƯSpain."--Back cover.

"A mysterious and poignant exploration of poetic memoir to deepen an awareness of who we are and where we are headed. In days of uncertainty we find our footing. We find poetry in an urban coming of age story. How does one interpret life events that seem in old age to have a dream-like quality? In any event it is up to each individual to transmute and transform seemingly meaningless events. Eventually, we find out we are wordsmiths who must take the...

Roman historians suggested the black swan never existed as a species found in the natural world. However, poets well know the icon of the black swan is alive and well and swimming across many sign posts of pubs in the British Isles. Read these poems and savor a lyrical exuberance that activates, quickens and celebrates a cosmic song

A trip to the first Yeats Summer School held in Sligo, Ireland provides the backdrop for a poetic sojourn through magical time and space. For readers of Bishop?s verse this attractive volume will provide new love poems, poems of childhood as well as meditative vignettes on old age.