I Am the Flame by Elizabeth P. Glixman

$14.00

 

I Am the Flame blazes a trail of poems that looks back upon one’s roots. Through insightful vignettes, Glixman delves into the traditions and lives of her ancestors with the inquiring mind of “a child entering life shocked by light / remembering the womb from where we all came.” A beautiful and riveting collection.

–Arlene Ang

 

With these poems, Glixman goes “to the outer edges of memory” to honer her ancestors. Even though “the people who know who they were to each other what happened are gone,” Glixman’s songs “mix longing, imagination” to remember language, lives unspoken til now.
–Kimberly L. Becker, author Words Facing East

 

In poems rich with evocative details and surprising turns, Elizabeth Glixman, through family stories, history, and an imagination brimming with wonder and wisdom, defines her place among her female ancestors. She solidifies her connection with them as she writes, “I am all these women / … I am their flame.” Later, she returns their “bones to the core of the earth / to the heat” where, with her flame of passion and newfound understanding, they become a “new orchestra / of woman song.”
–Berwyn Moore

 

 

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I Am the Flame

by Elizabeth P. Glixman

$14, paper

Elizabeth P. Glixman is a poet, writer and artist. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks A White Girl Lynching, 2008 and Cowboy Writes a Letter & Other Love Poems, 2010, both published by Pudding House Publications, OH and The Wonder of It All, 2011 published by Propaganda Press, CA.

Her author interviews, articles, book reviews and creative non-fiction pieces have appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, Whole Life Times, Hadassah Magazine, and the anthology Chocolate for A Woman’s Soul II. Elizabeth’s short story, “Mother’s Bony Behind,” was chosen one of the notable online stories of 2006 by storySouth’s Million Writers Award.

Elizabeth was the Interview Editor for www.Eclectica.org for eight years inviting well known and emerging poets and writers to talk about their work.

Elizabeth received a BFA degree in studio arts from the School of the Worcester Art Museum and Clark University where she also received a masters degree in elementary education. Having been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome fifteen years ago she turned to writing a to find inner wholeness in the face of adversity. Her poems reflect the experience of her own life, her sense of humor and the world of peoples’ relationships with each other, society and animals. Elizabeth’s work shows the richness and joy of living with all its injustices absurdities and heartache. In I Am the Flame she revisits her ancestral female lineage.

Visit her blog

https://elizabeth-inthemoment.blogspot.com/

 

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