Candlefish
Poems
Will be published approx. on 30. July 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-55728-767-0 (ISBN)
Description
The candlefish, enormous schools of which enter the Pacific Northwest's rivers in the spring, is so rich with oil that when supplied with a wick it can be used as a candle. Thus creatures of the water become transformed into instruments of fire and spirit, ultimately transcending this world.
Written as the author begins to navigate the second half of life, Candlefish unfolds along multiple lines of narrative and reflection. Each poem is rendered from experience and made incandescent by the spark of the author's intellect and insight.
Whether tending the flower beds, skinnydipping on her birthday, conversing with a grown daughter, or bringing inside the teacup her husband can no longer carry, Elizabeth Biller Chapman distills each moment to its most vital components and makes them luminous with the necessity and surprise of relation.
Elizabeth Biller Chapman's candlefish gracefully swim toward the pierced horizon all of us must face and are transformed by imaginative compassion as the book develops, season by season, from summer to spring.
Written as the author begins to navigate the second half of life, Candlefish unfolds along multiple lines of narrative and reflection. Each poem is rendered from experience and made incandescent by the spark of the author's intellect and insight.
Whether tending the flower beds, skinnydipping on her birthday, conversing with a grown daughter, or bringing inside the teacup her husband can no longer carry, Elizabeth Biller Chapman distills each moment to its most vital components and makes them luminous with the necessity and surprise of relation.
Elizabeth Biller Chapman's candlefish gracefully swim toward the pierced horizon all of us must face and are transformed by imaginative compassion as the book develops, season by season, from summer to spring.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Fayetteville
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55728-767-0 (9781557287670)
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E-Book
07/2004
1st Edition
University of Arkansas Press
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Person
Although born into a literary family--her parents edited and published The Writer magazine and The Writer's Handbook--Elizabeth Biller Chapman did not write her first poem until she was forty-three. Since then, however, her work has appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Blueline, and Yankee. Her poem "On the Screened Porch" was included in Best American Poetry, 2002. Creekwalker, her 1995 chapbook, won the (M)other Tongue Press international competition, and her debut collection, First Orchard, was published in 1999 by Bellowing Ark Press. She earned her B.A. from Smith College, her M.A. from the Shakespeare Institute, and her Ph.D. from Columbia University; spent seventeen years as a psychotherapist; and has taught at Claremont McKenna, Radcliffe, Scripps, and Smith Colleges.