Synopsis
Poet's Choice Publishing is proud once again to bring you the poetic musings of Elisavietta Ritchie. HARBINGERS follows the peripatetic mind of a woman writing at the height of her power, making concrete all the stuff of a life lived fully and worth living: lovers, family, professional achievements; the joy of being part of it all, despite the challenges of aging, and the inevitable conclusion of winter. Here is a poet caught between "heaven and hell," who nevertheless takes it all on with great pluck and vigor, who leads the way with courage, dignity, and self assurance, a harbinger of what it means to be a talented human being in a troubling, but luminous world, a model of someone who doesn't give up on any front, burgeoning yet again.
About the Author
Author's Note Elisavietta Ritchie's prose, poetry, photographs, translations are widely published, translated, and anthologized in the United States and abroad. Credits include The New York Times, The Washington Post, Poetry, American Scholar, The Christian Science Monitor, JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, Canadian Woman Studies, Confrontation, Potomac Review, and numerous other publications. Tightening the Circle Over Eel Country won the Great Lakes Colleges Association's "New Writer's Award, 1975-1976." Individual poems and stories won awards from the Poetry Society of America, National Endowment for the Arts, The Ledge, Bright Hill Press, and others. Several were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Ritchie writes, translates, edits, gives readings, workshops, serves as poetin- the- schools, and helps writers of various ages. She was long active with the Washington Writers' Publishing House, where, after winning annual awards for a book of poetry and later of fiction, she served first as president of the poetry then the fiction division. She also created The Wineberry Press to publish others' manuscripts too unconventional for regular presses. She traveled to several continents independently and as a Visiting Overseas Speaker for the United States Information Service. Her most recent collection from Poets' Choice Publishers is Reflections: Poems on Paintings, A Poet's Gallery; readings of these poems can be accompanied with the paintings (most of which are at The National Gallery) which inspired them on PowerPoint. Ritchie has been nurturing poets, painters, musicians and wildlife, and writing on the shores of the Patuxent River, Maryland, the Potomac, Washington DC, and rivers and seacoasts of Cyprus, Malaysia, the Balkans, Australia, Canada and briefly, the USSR and the African continent.
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