Elizabeth Greene

No Ordinary Days. Poerty by Elizabeth Greene

No Ordinary Days is a book of shifting perspectives. It begins with a sense of limited beautiful days and a series of elegies for friends alive in memory but vanished into the stream of time. It opens into a consideration of some of the heroism, tragedy and terror in our age and briefly looks forward to a time beyond capitalism. The poems then turn to the personal as the poet experiences disruption in her own damaged home, her temporary homelessness, and her renewed appreciation of home. Framing these poems about the uniqueness of days and the change of one age to the next are poems about the immensity beyond the earthly realm, the vastness of the stars..

"Elizabeth Greene’s No Ordinary Days is a poetic reminder that ordinary days are often extraordinary even in the simplest of moments. Whether grappling with our Anthropocene era (“Who Will Paint Our Age?”), sending one’s spirit across the veil for answers (“Charismatic Speech”) or capturing the elusive words for a poem (“Finding the Words”), Greene’s wide-ranging voice and vision are both incantatory and transcendent.
—Clara Blackwood, author of Pomegranate Heart

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ISBN 978-1-77171-578-2
Poetry
126 pages
6x9
$24.95