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Elizabeth Spires

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in Lancaster, Ohio, The United States

January 01, 1952

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female

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Poetry, Children's Books

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Elizabeth Spires is the author of five collections of poetry as well as several books for children. She has been the recipient a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1998 she received the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association. Her poems have been featured on National Public Radio and have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, and in many anthologies, including Contemporary American Poetry (7th edition) and The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. She lives in Baltimore...more

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Elizabeth Spires's Books

Average rating: 3.63 · 202 ratings · 54 reviews · 16 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Mouse of Amherst: A Tale of Young Readers 3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings 3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wave-Maker: Poems 3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Meow 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Worldling 3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Now the Green Blade Rises: Poems 4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am Arachne: Fifteen Greek and Roman Myths 3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Globe 3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swan's Island 4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	With One White Wing: Puzzles In Poems And Pictures 3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Elizabeth Spires

“I shall say a prayer to the Moon
because even a badger prays now and then:

O Silver Sliver,
shine down on me and change me
so that I am what I am,
not two things, no not two!

But the Moon never answers.
It grows smaller as it ascends,
as if someone or something were eating it.
I understand such hunger.”
― Elizabeth Spires, I Am Arachne: Fifteen Greek and Roman Myths

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