<p>The threshold of what is about to happen or has just passed, the liminal moment- these are the subjects of the poems in this volume. As if the lift in the breath and the skipped heartbeat can be caught in words, as if the shadow were known as fully as the person who casts it. Anticipation is as important as accomplishment. There is attention to what often goes unseen, as when great wild cats pause before the pounce. Life seems larger and more luminous with these spaces filled in. The poems suggest that if we saw more and praised it, we might envy our own lives. "Elizabeth Socolow's poetry is at once graceful, powerful and provocative. She captures above all those flashes of consciousness, replete with evanescent meaning, that elude less refined perceptions. In this, she reminds me of Robert Browning's fascination with the 'moment one and infinite.' She celebrates the unnoticed small perfections of the natural world, like the spores of the fern, and links them to large questions of connectedness and complexity." -Evelyn Witkin, Geneticist, Director-at-Large, New York Browning Society. "Borrowing from ecstatic tradition, Elizabeth Socolow turns rapt attention to what lies 'between'-to the hidden spaces one seeks for safety, to solitudes and the tensile strengths that bind us. Her lovely, devotional reflections make repair of aging, loss and loneliness and show us many ways 'to love the days and be surprised.'" -Terry Blackhawk, author of Body &amp; Field and Escape Artist, Director of the Detroit Inside/Out Project of Poetry in the Schools</p>

Between Silence And Praise (The Ragged Sky Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Socolow, Elizabeth Anne

Poetry

Ragged Sky Pr

<p>In this volume, award-winning poet Elizabeth Anne Socolow speaks in various personas to tell of the lives of three women, two of the nineteenth and one of the twentieth century: Lady Jane Franklin, whose husband John attempted to find the Northwest Passage; Margaret Fuller, American Transcendentalist and the first foreign correspondent for the Herald Tribune under Horace Greeley; and Mary Lee Ware (a Cabot on her mother's side), who oversaw the making, in Dresden, of the famous glass flowers now in the Natural History Museum at Harvard University.</p>

What People Do in the Dark

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For some years, I loved and lost beta fish, twelve tanks of them, whom I tended and watched, knowing they live not more than five years in captivity. I thereby helped myself to accept my age. As I used the fish to try and get used to departure, waning and weakness, hanging on, and finally the sudden stiffness and pallor that signals life has ended, I felt a connection and gratitude to these small and almost always beautiful beings. I wrote about them, and the writing became more and more testimonial. One of my cousins could not imagine how I could have a pet I could not even touch. But these pets were different: my fish are about going on in straitened circumstances. These poems are a record of my wonder and my thanks and admiration.

Rose Petals and Elephant Ears: A Chapbook of Poems about Beta Fish and Other Animals

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Between Silence And Praise (The Ragged Sky Poetry Series)

What People Do in the Dark

Rose Petals and Elephant Ears: A Chapbook of Poems about Beta Fish and Other Animals