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Elizabeth is the author of one book of criticism, two of poetry, and two of nonfiction. Her essays, poems, and articles have appeared widely in a variety of journals and magazines. Elizabeth is University Distinguished Professor at Kansas State University.
In the Mind's Eye:Essays across the Animate World
In this collection of exquisite essays, Elizabeth explores the natural and human history of sites in the American Southwest, the caves of southern France, the Kansas grasslands, and the forests of the Pacific Northwest. In the Mind’s Eye considers the artistic and creative impulses of those who preceded us, making sense of the different ways in which they—and we—express our experiences of landscape in words and images.
Archetypal Light Poems
Elizabeth’s world stretches from the lightless cave home of the eyeless, transparent fish known as a blindcat to the imagination of painter Georgia O’Keeffe. Her closely observed images, deep understanding, and sympathy for the natural world, the rhythms of geologic time, and the seasons of the living year are linked in these poems to the vagaries of the human experience, the mysterious truths of life, and the potential of the human heart.
Other Books
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Readings, Publications, & other news
Elizabeth's essays, poems, and articles have appeared widely in a variety of journals and magazines. Among her various awards, she has received two Kansas Arts Commission master fellowships in poetry, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Emerging Writer Award, the William Rockhill Nelson Best Nonfiction Book Award, the McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Nonfiction, and her work has been cited in Best American Essays.