Poetry is a way of life, a way of celebrating many aspects of nature, both dark and light. To celebrate life through poetic exploration is the aim of much Elizabeth Martina Bishop's vibrant work. That being said, poetry can be found everywhere, in ordinary rituals of daily life. Poetry is a way of meeting the challenges of life as well. Poetry provides ways that aspects of both inner and outer lives may balance and compliment each other. The poetry you find within these pages is not seen as a rarified art form, rather it is seen as a talk story, a way of telling a story that decorates almost all the ample rooms of the heart.
A sudden leap of consciousness. A leap of faith. Karma is an open door. A way of attending to the spiritual nature of the writing discipline. This is what poet Elizabeth Martina Bishop is all about. She leaves the door open for readers to enter into new ways of thinking about the natural world. Even within the postmodern urban context, the inner dance remains the same
This collection invites readers to sample new experimental forms of writing by poet, Elizabeth Martina Bishop, author of thirty-five books. Using a metaphysical form of faux memoir, or a memoir based on fantasy and hypothetical realms involved in the human experience, Bishop plumbs the depths of anguish, sorrow, and joy and veers towards science fiction. She has never written so much prose in her life. She also includes a new diverse collection of poems and a small verse play: Dinner with the Green Tara.
The poems in this book represent a further development on the part of the poet, Elizabeth Martina Bishop. She sees intently into the unseen and unspoken words she culls from nature. While she admits she wants nature to solve every problem and challenge she encounters, of course this remains an impossible paradigm. If Mother Nature can solve many problems, She cannot dissolve all the problems of life encountered by the mystic seer. With that being said, can poetry inspire human beings to take care of the planet?
Praise and celebration of the changing seasons of nature is the aim of much of poet Elizabeth Martina Bishop's work. Bringing an intense spiritual awareness to her powers of observation brings readers a delightful experience of what longing for the infinite is all about.
Canaries have symbolized the healing properties of the sun. Many folk cultures feature the canary as a Rosocrucian dream image showing the canary hovering above a rose. In this narrative poem the canary operates as a fixture, a landmark, leading the dreamer in a journey celebrating life, birth and death.
Representing her newest collection, these poems by Elizabeth Bishop center on familiar themes of loss, grief, and also the gaining of a new astrological perspective. Within this collection, astrology serves as a metaphorical trope that communicates a reassuring intimacy awash with planetary configurations. Navigating the way poets envision the life of an artist is what some of these poems are about. One can sense a comedic underpinning and wry overtones of a back story. Under the daring guidance of several mentors, Bishop's work is always changing in order to meet the contemporary aesthetic exigencies of the craft. Written over a six month period in 2021, these poems reflect the challenging yet vibrant textures of an elder. Years before and after Covid may never be quite the same. Moments of self-reflection abound in Bishop's work. Covid gives us time to consider self-reckoning. What are the far reaching implications of wisdom's momentous occasions? The reader will find out as she/he reads between the lines and allows imagination to be unloosed.
Bishop's poems in this volume include multiple projections of dark and light embedded in mirrors operating within the inner realms as transcendent reminders of the possibility of the exploration of body mind and spirit. Her poems range from transcendent images that spin and astonish with a luminous enjoyment of the senses. It is a kind of slam poetry that is more charming than what one at first thinks of. It is not easy hallmark card kind of poetry. It invites the reader to love the world of words and allow for the imagination to blossom and explode into rose petals of delight.
Poems written at the end of the pandemic. Will the pandemic come back? Will everything remain the same as it once was before? Nothing is the same except the recycling of historical patterns captured in poetry. The voice of reason may hold out. Or, it may not. The logic of poetry extends over time and space. Choose a poem for your birthday; read it aloud in order to seek the recurring presence of rhyme or reason to match the psyche's quixotic quest for a dreamer's cosmos. Reading poems may awaken the irreverent logic of the dreamer, within and without. Poetry may harmonize with memories of happier days. Poetry may offer and gift you with a ray of hope as you travel through this topsy turvy world without fear.
Succumbing to serendipity, many poems are written under the guise of chance inspiration garnered from unexpected meetings with others, real or imaginary, Though many people are still donning colorful masks, meetings still take place. Six feet apart, people can still practice the art of conversation. Developing the storyline for poems that sprout from nature's legacy of winter snow or spring blossoms is a customary ritual blend for poets who indulge in the art of the imagination. Even under lockdown, the wings of the imagination can soar and prosper giving rise to a new set of poems each month no matter what the season.
Canaries have symbolized the healing properties of the sun. Many folk cultures feature the canary as a Rosocrucian dream image showing the canary hovering above a rose. In this narrative poem the canary operates as a fixture, a landmark, leading the dreamer in a journey celebrating life, birth and death.
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