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Ink on Snow
What unites all the poems in Ink on Snow is the voice of someone brave enough to see closely both the painful and the beautiful--to ask what will satisfy and to trust the words to respond in the way we trust prayers to be not with easy solutions or simple fixes, but with a recognition that what we are looking for will never reveal itself in the way we expect it to. So many of the poems are acts of witness by a speaker who is both detached and passionate, intimate and observant, conscious of her distance from things--tragedies, natural phenomenon, people--and determined to bridge this distance through the agency of a loving and courageous language, exploring the dark energies that inform her life and the world's and in doing so, illuminating our lives and hers.
84 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2010
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October 19, 2017
'The world does sing, then holds its breath / in the final moments before the cold comes down.'
Elizabeth Raby's poetry reads like a gift. Many are able to deal with subjects of family, or loss, or nature one at a time but it is rare to read poems that pack so much together. The poet's ability to reveal complex feeling through the simplest possible language presents a rich tapestry to the reader, one that shows new colors and new layers with each subsequent reading.
Elizabeth Raby's poetry reads like a gift. Many are able to deal with subjects of family, or loss, or nature one at a time but it is rare to read poems that pack so much together. The poet's ability to reveal complex feeling through the simplest possible language presents a rich tapestry to the reader, one that shows new colors and new layers with each subsequent reading.
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