Surender to Light, Poems by Elizabeth Kirschner
The gorgeous poems of Elizabeth Kirschner’s Surrender to Light invite the reader to surrender as well, lifted by joyous music toward the world and the sun.
Sample Poems by Elizabeth Kirscher
Praise for Elizabeth Kirschner's Earlier Work
“The beautiful contradictions are conveyed with much poise, confidence, and courage as the poet maintains a stance that is once tough and tender, mediating between a gentle embracing of disappointment and mistrust toward any promise of paradise.”—Shenandoah
“Elizabeth Kirschner offers a splendid chronicle of exiles and reprieves, a chronicle in which vision operates at the extremes of materiality, upon the flesh of everything.”—Denver Quarterly
Elizabeth Kirschner has published four volumes of poetry: Twenty Colors, Postal Routes, Slow Risen Among the Smoke Trees, all brought out by Carnegie-Mellon University Press, and My Life as a Doll from Autumn House Press. She has published widely both nationally and internationally and has two CDs from Albany Records featuring her poetry set to music, The Dichterliebe in Fours Seasons" wherein she set her own lyrics, not a translation, to Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe and New Dawn composed by Carson Cooman. Kirschhner lives on the water in Kittery Point, Maine.
ISBN 978-1934999639, 56 pages, $16.00