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ISBN: 978-1-948461-35-1
The Poetry Box
Most Beautiful
By Elizabeth S.E. McBride; artwork by Connie Cronenwett
Description
A collection of poems, prose, and paintings inspired by the village of Glen Arbor, Michigan and the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, voted “Most Beautiful Place in America” in 2011. It’s not always easy to slow down, unplug, and take notice of the gifts nature offers. Elizabeth McBride’s poetry and prose invites you to bear witness to the wonder of that which surrounds us. Whether you enjoy this book right where you are, or bring it with you to take your own poetic tour of the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore and its surrounding regions, you can match the cited locations to the poems and prose they inspired, and experience what is here, what was here before you, and what is changing right beneath your feet and overhead. Let the artwork and verse herein, whet your appetite for discovery, as you venture into this place “Most Beautiful!”
Reviews
"McBride takes us on a glorious tour of the area: to the farms of Port Oneida, to the little town of Empire, to the vistas of Pierce Stocking Drive and the thrill of Pyramid Point and its shipwrecks."
~ Betsy Wagner, Glen Arbor Arts Center Artist-in-Residence Program
"In her luminous work, Elizabeth McBride’s elegant and earthbound writing creates that uncommon experience only a fine artist can give us."
~ Jack Ridl, author of Practicing to Walk Like a Heron and Saint Peter and the Goldfinch
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Waterfall of Light
Crystal River ripples, flows
and turns beneath bowed evergreens.
Reflections light the undersides
of every branch, and trace their
brindled rugged trunks
with cascades of illusioned rain.
Jack pines hang their draping boughs
over the water, fingers trailing
like the paddler who floats slow
and mesmerized by motion, stillness
becomes both
at once.