Love and Its Interruptions
- Authors
- Elizabeth Elliott
- Publisher
- WInter Press LLC
- Tags
- advice , men , women , arts , beauty , nature , seasons , being , ontology , paradox , climate change , politics , courage , persistence , family , purpose , goal , death , religion , evil , sex , science , gratitude , appreciation , help , hope , healing , integration , power of the human spirit , time , innocence , transformation , joy , truth , philosophy , justice , loss , matter , spirit , psyche , poetry. poems , poem , elizabeth elliott , mother , father
- Date
- 2015
- Size
- 4.42 MB
- Lang
- en
In spite of new freedoms and new therapies love between men and women is not easy. Elizabeth Elliott's fifth book of poetry has three parts: "First Love First Happiness," "In The Schools Of Love," and "Love And Its Interruptions."She writes, "I am too old to speak about First Love in today's world, but sixty years ago first love was about being unable to speak, about innocence and a kind of thrilled fear. It was not about choice so much as about commitment. Until divorce happened it couldn't happen. But a new freedom beckoned beyond the true sadness, actions were signed into a record and then —freedom is scratching at our eager door. Are we prepared for this freedom? NO. Do we learn? I guess." Eighteen poems have been culled from earlier books, thirty-nine poems are new or never been published. Included is a new concept for poetry, -just a word. Here you'll find insights written by the author behind the scenes for each poem. Elizabeth's poetry explores the human condition in our...