New Lebanon - Elizabeth Poreba

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Résumé :
A thrift store, a blue heron, a deceased bobcat: the poems in New Lebanon subject the upstate New York town to microscopic, idiosyncratic scrutiny. Because its abundant cedars reminded them of the famed Biblical Lebanon, people who were steeped in Scripture gave the town its name more than 200 years ago, adding that New as a hope for, and acknowledgement of, the town's future. In the same way, many of the poems here attempt to locate the town within the meeting of its past with its possibilities, a confluence like the joining of State Routes 20 and 22, which flow as one road through the center of town....

Biographie:
Elizabeth Poreba is a retired high school English teacher who has lived in New Lebanon for 37 years with her husband of 54 years, John Poreba. Nowadays, she writes poetry, volunteers with the Sierra Club, visits her two daughters and their families, and does this and that around town as a member of the Climate Smart Communities Task Force. Her work has appeared in the Southern Poetry Review, the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and Commonweal, among other print and online publications. She has published two poetry collections, Vexed and Self Help: A Guide for the Retiring and one chapbook, The Family Calling. Her work can also be found in This Full Green Hour, an anthology published by the One O'Clock Poets.

Sommaire:
A thrift store, a blue heron, a deceased bobcat: the poems in New Lebanon subject the upstate New York town to microscopic, idiosyncratic scrutiny. Because its abundant cedars reminded them of the famed Biblical Lebanon, people who were steeped in Scripture gave the town its name more than 200 years ago, adding that New as a hope for, and acknowledgement of, the town's future. In the same way, many of the poems here attempt to locate the town within the meeting of its past with its possibilities, a confluence like the joining of State Routes 20 and 22, which flow as one road through the center of town....