Feathers: (Or, Love on the Wing) - Softcover

Ritchie, Elisavietta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1467556971 ISBN 13: 9781467556972

Publisher: Shelden Studios, 2016

Synopsis

Feathers is a collection of poems by Elisavietta Ritchie, inspired by birds and certain humans, paired with collages of photographs of feathers and the watercolors of artist Megan Richard. Designer Suzanne Shelden has created a blending between the artist and the poet, including feathers collected by the artists, to create a depth of connection between the two and to create a book where there are no hard lines between the poems and the art. The result is a deep, visual exploration that complements the richness of the poetry in this book.

About this title

About the Author

Elisavietta Ritchie's work is widely published and anthologized. Individual stories, poems, creative non-fiction, photographs, and her translations from Russian, French, Macedonian and Indonesian have appeared in numerous publications in the United States and abroad, and her own work is translated into a dozen languages. Readings include the Library of Congress, Harbourfront, Folger Library, Pittsburgh International Forum, Harvard, and other universities, schools, and cultural centers in the United States and Canada, Australia, Russia, and, sponsored by the United States Information Agency, in Brazil, the Far East, and the Balkans.

Poet, writer, editor, and leader of workshops for adults and children, Ritchie attended the Sorbonne, Cornell University, and received a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. from American University in Washington, D.C. She served as president for poetry, then for fiction, for the Washington Writers Publishing House, where she continues as a fiction editor.

Composers Jackson Berkey, David Owens, David L. Brunner, and others, have transformed her poems for voice and piano. Artist-historian Donald Shomette superimposed her poems on a portfolio of his photographs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shelden Studios
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1467556971
• ISBN 13: 9781467556972
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 50