ISBN: 1930648510 9781930648517

Category: Poetry / General

Page count: 78

In this expanded version, the number of poems has increased by twenty percent. In addition, Goose River Press is offering the option of a CD, a forty-six minute recording of the author reading the collection. Although Poems from the Lake provides an intimate glimpse into long summers at a Maine lakeside cottage, the setting could be any summer retreat where nature provides the raw stimulus for feelings to emerge. Elizabeth Hobbs? poetry gives the reader ?A sense of presents slowly given - one here, one there, always hints of more to come...? Elizabeth Hobbs spins deft connections between the small moments of insight and the large moments of seasons and years. In poem after poem she summons up quiet yet incisive perceptions that resonate with the calm of thorough experience. - Baron Wormser, Poet Laureate of Maine.In an instant, Elizabeth Hobbs' poems take me to the lake - to the long swims that bring peace - to a rainy afternoon of love - to my favorite way of life. - Babs Murdock, author of Raymond Floyd Goes to AfricaElizabeth Hobbs' images - sharp and clear as a Maine lake - linger in the heart. - Connie Cross, Loon Echo Land Trust