Website of Elizabeth Harrington, Ph.D. Poet, Blogger, Non-Fiction Writer
Earth's Milk
"Earth's Milk"
First runner-up in the Main Street Rag Chapbook Competition
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First runner-up: Main Street Rag
2007 Chapbook Contest
"Elizabeth Harrington's poems are full of small epiphanies, bringing readers to see life anew, both its minor and major episodes. Written with a rare freshness of vision, wisdom and clarity, her work is at once narrative and lyrical, possessing a metaphoric gift that is truly a wonderment. The appealing beauty of Elizabeth Harrington's voice will make you gasp with pleasure as it uplifts your heart and breaks it. It is an inimitable voice like no other in poetry."
-- Mary Stewart Hammond
"Elizabeth Harrington's poems are clear-eyed, tender, ironic bits of Americana, both realistic and hallucinatory. Portraits of pure physicality -- sweat, lemonade, and gasoline in a small Oklahoma town -- become over the course of his lovely book, mapping one woman's life, ethereal visitations. I love in these poems the acute rendering of individual moments, the slippages in time, and the loss of bearings amidst which the reader places herself with surprising accuracy."
-- Hermine Meinhard
"Elizabeth Harrington's poems shimmer with the heat of an Oklahoma landscape where "our first lover is like summer/though we don't know it yet". At times, they read like a memoir but are more melodic. Family, fatherhood, and in particular, the death of her stepfather are themes she traces in this work of mourning but also wonder. With startling grace, honesty, and sometimes even humor, she is able to capture the uncanny quality of loss."
-- Elaine Equi
Website of Elizabeth Harrington, Ph.D. Poet, Blogger, Non-Fiction Writer
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