Growing Old Disgracefully by Elizabeth Marchitti

 

Elizabeth Marchitti‘s Growing Old Disgracefully explores with candor and grace the delights and challenges of the so-called ” golden years.” Her philosophic and wise meditations concerning nature , a long and good marriage ,family , writing  are tender and moving. Her luminous  poems about the Jersey shore  transported me in such a visceral way, I felt I should put on sun tan lotion.  But despite her gift for lyricism and philosophic musings,  ” beware ” for this  senior citizen Marchitti  is not bland  “white bread” but rather her   voice   Is captivating as she fiercely “grows old  disgracefully.”

–Laura Boss, author , The Best Lover ( New York Quarterly, 2017).  Founder and Editor of Lips

Elizabeth Marchitti‘s book, Growing Old Disgracefully, is a celebration of life, of all that remains. I love how the poet finds joy in the smallest of things–bird songs, the ocean, the barnegat Lighthose, the blessings of the seasons. If this is growing old disgracefully, that’s the way i want to grow old!
–Maria Mazziotti Gillan, winner: American Book Award, www. mariagillan.com