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Wonder-filled and Strange by Elizabeth A. Gibson

Name: Wonder-filled and Strange by Elizabeth A. Gibson
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In Wonder-filled and Strange, Elizabeth Gibson guides us on a journey through new realizations and the accompanying shifts that alter her own perceptions. In “The Vigil,” she shows us where “the struggle between moments and worlds” holds us between life and death, between what we know and what we are to learn. “Meditation in a Cathedral” may draw us in with rose petals but it also shares the wonder of words that offer “the special ability language gives us to clarify and complicate our perceptions, to obscure and illuminate our intentions.” It is this balance between what is familiar and what is new—what we see differently with new experience—that creates a thoughtful read as we encounter her poems.

–Mary Fox, author of Waiting for Rain and Reading Lessons.

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Wonder-filled and Strange

by Elizabeth A. Gibson

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In these poems, Ms. Gibson explores the ever-changing moods of the sea from a sun-kissed balm to a quiet threat to seeing it as our gateway to a mystery much bigger than we are. She also explores the experiences of loss and grief with humor, sadness, and in “Not Shaped Like a Fist,” with anger and resignation. Death makes a personal appearance in two poems, advising in “Close as a Twin,” that “It’s not personal,” since he comes for everyone. In another poem, “The Visit,” Death gets outmatched by a dying woman and backs off for the time being. Through it all, there is a sense of reverence at life’s beauty and mystery as when, at the end of the title poem, Wonder-filled and Strange, Ms. Gibson writes: “Perhaps there are many worlds / or maybe only this one – / lavish and unpredictable, / wonder-filled and strange.” We invite you to step into Ms. Gibson’s poetic world and explore with her why we’re here and what it might mean.

Elizabeth A. Gibson has a B.A. in English and Creative Writing and an M.A. in American Studies, both from Michigan State University. She has been published in Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Two Hawks Quarterly, The Tishman Review, and Iconoclast Magazine, among others. She works as a researcher and technical writer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and recently returned to live in Michigan after many years away.