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Where Green Meets Blue

Elizabeth Robin

With Robin's memories of her husband and their love of the lowcountry landscapes, she transitioned from grieving what she had lost, to treasuring what she had had, a purposeful choice to travel toward Where Green Meets Blue, the metaphorical places in our lives we choose to move forward and engage in possibility. Fellow lowcountry poet Miho Kinnas says, "'Where Green Meets Blue' continues Elizabeth Robin's lyric inquiry into loss, and the struggle to maintain equilibrium. The title is taken from 'Whereafter, ' the poem searching a resting place for grief and longing: 'where green meets blue/ i remember, he loved that view.' In the aftermath of the catastrophic hurricane Matthew, the poet observes the dismantled pines and tells: 'i'm left with the stump/lifeless, flat, unmoved.' She doesn't end there, but continues: 'oversized hands/wise eyes/and a rumbling humor.'" Robin's poems revere her adopted lowcountry vistas, explore the journey to love and lose, the need to exercise social justice, and to treasure those foibles that make us human.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Finishing Line Press
  • Publish Date: May 4th, 2018
  • Pages: 44
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.25in - 0.45lb
  • EAN: 9781635344882
  • Categories: General

About the Author

Robin, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Robin retired after 33 years teaching high school English. She enjoys a second career as a writer on Hilton Head Island. Her first collection of poems was published by Finishing Line Press in 2017. Silk Purses and Lemonade explores the challenges of the human experience, both personal and cultural. Where Green Meets Blue is her second chapbook. Her work appears in Ebb & Flow (2017) and Time and Tide (2015) which she also co-edited, and journals such as The Good Juju Review, The Fourth River, Foliate Oak, I am not a silent poet, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Curly Mind, The Skinny Journal, and The Breeze. She serves as Arts Liaison to Island Writers' Network, has done workshops, speeches and readings for the Pat Conroy Literary Center, and belongs to the Poetry Society of South Carolina. See more about her poetry, non-fiction and fiction at http: //www.elizabethrobin.com/

Praise for this book

Where Green Meets Blue continues Elizabeth Robin's lyric inquiry into loss, and the struggle to maintain equilibrium. The title is taken from "Whereafter," the poem searching a resting place for grief and longing: where green meets blue/ i remember, he loved that view. In one poem after another, readers spend their days together with the poet. Her language is rhythmical and articulate, her poetry is frank and thorough. In the aftermath of the catastrophic hurricane Matthew, the poet observes the dismantled pines and tells: i'm left with the stump/lifeless, flat, unmoved. She doesn't end there, but continues: oversized hands/wise eyes/and a rumbling humor. It is so . . . memorable. Where Green Meets Blue is a book of surrender, restoration and ultimately of hope.

--Miho Kinnas, MFA (Poetry), City University of Hong Kong, Author

of Today, Fish Only (2015), Translator of Equatorial Calm, a haiku

anthology (2016)