Streets After Rain
Streets After Rain
Elizabeth Knies
"Everything is observed here—the fact of love, its absence, geography, the lives of friends. The changing seasons of solitude are observed too with fine attention. Elizabeth Knies writes with lyrical poise and transparency. In some of the finest poems in the book she approaches the brace and effortless clarity we associate with the ancient Chinese poets. These are generous poems, the eye prized always on the immediate and therefore on what is genuine—and always searching."
—Patricia Hampl
1980
ISBN: 9780914086314
Available in Print. Digital Format Coming Soon. .
Elizabeth Knies is the author of five collections of poetry, including The New Year & Other Poems (1975); Streets After Rain (1980); From the Window (1985); White Peonies (2001); Going and Coming Back (2007). A native of Pennsylvania, she won the Sarah Homer Prize for Creative Writing from Allegheny College, her undergraduate alma mater. After completing a master's degree in English Language and Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire, she taught for two and a half years at Shoin Women's University in Kobe, Japan. Subsequent teaching positions took her to Missouri and Colorado. Her reviews of film, drama, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in The Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, The Missouri Review, and Portfolio. In 1998 - 99, as a teaching fellow in the Creative Writing Program at Boston University, she earned a master's degree in Creative Writing. From 2007-2009, as the Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, her current home, she created a multi-faceted project called “Surprised by Joy.”
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"Contemplative, serious and ardent…"
—Jean Pedrick
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