{"title":"Elisavietta Ritchie","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"scotch-runner-book-elisavietta-ritchie-9780997262995","title":"The Scotch Runner","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo world-class geologists draw on their prolific fifty-year careers in this comprehensive guide to the geology and biology of the Florida Keys and Florida Bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEugene Shinn and Barbara Lidz dive into the past, present, and future of an area that has long been a natural laboratory for learning about coral reef formation and the origins of limestone. They explain how underlying Pleistocene topography controls the shapes of today's coral reefs, how sea-level rise created Florida Bay, and how hurricanes mold limemud banks and strip vegetation from the Florida Keys. They discuss the recent decline of coral reefs due to overpopulation, pollution, climate change, and other factors. An itinerary is included for a hands-on three-day field trip, guiding visitors to the best places to see the famous reef formations and geologic processes of the Keys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs glaciers continue to melt and reform at Earth's poles, sea level is currently rising and will fall again at some point in the geologic future. In this volume, Shinn and Lidz demonstrate the value of the Keys and immediate surroundings as an environmental laboratory to study past effects of sea-level change and to stimulate ideas for further research.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49571605250321,"sku":"GOR013549009","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52616032682257,"sku":"NLS9780997262995","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53439834226961,"sku":"NIN9780997262995","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0997262990.jpg?v=1750748793"},{"product_id":"lunatic-moons-book-elisavietta-ritchie-9780997714746","title":"Lunatic Moons","description":"\u003cp\u003eLUNATIC MONS: INSOMNIA CANTATAS - A delightful conversation between poet Elisavietta Ritchie and artist Suzanne Shelden, Lunatic Moons explores the realms of poetry and cats by moonlight. Elisavietta's poems come of many sleepless nights prowling the dreamscape of the imagination. Before the moon looms full the spirits in my brain begin to whirl--. That many of these poems have to do with cats is not surprising, as cats revel in nocturnal escapades, but also in their nature, the wisdom of cats can be uncannily human, while the intuition of cats is undoubtably superior. Inspired by the poems, each of Suzanne's cat drawings conveys an intriguing visual dimension in response to the words.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51011623059729,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51011625877777,"sku":"NIN9780997714746","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52522682974481,"sku":"NLS9780997714746","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0997714743.jpg?v=1751332323"},{"product_id":"navigational-hazards-book-elisavietta-ritchie-9781733232616","title":"Navigational Hazards","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51679529337105,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51679529500945,"sku":"NIN9781733232616","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1733232613.jpg?v=1751121988"},{"product_id":"guy-wires-book-elisavietta-ritchie-9780990925729","title":"Guy Wires","description":"When one reads the exquisite short title poem of GUY WIRES, the temptation, of course is to assign Elisavietta Ritchie the moniker of Spider Woman. And how wonderful and potent that the stuff of which she spins her web is love. This is a very serious poet, who weaves her poems with the tensile strength of spider silk, greater than the same weight of steel, and with much greater elasticity. Her poems make remarkable connections between her manic intelligence and the dear particulars of the world. Line by line, she pulls us forward into her creation, and we lie there, calm, mesmerized and grateful for the new take on the world she invariably wraps us in. There is a lot of talk these days of the wise woman, something like Erda in Wagner's Ring Cycle, that makes a reader realize they are in the presence of a mind worth hearing. Your dog knows.\/She's different when\/the moon is full, she tells us. But the poems swing through the human passions of sex, politics, and other worldly appetites with the agility of a Peter Parker on a joyful romp through the canyons of Manhattan. She has thrown a pentagram web over her private world, organizing a lifetime of experience and joy into five architectural sections - one thinks of Frost's notion that the final poem in a book of poetry is the book's organization. AT THE EDGE salutes dissident poets she has known and supported in a long life of taking responsibility for her actions: Yet, in this land\/ a poem can... land you in jail, and, I have told others 'write with your blood.' In Sisterhood: Mothers of Prisoners, she commiserates with the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, May we at least find\/ uncertain solace in our sisterhood. This is a beautifully felt group of poems, told with beautiful simplicity and power: ​How can shapes and blots ​of lives steaming with pain ​and so much love be forgot. ​ ​ The poems in WEAVERS become an ars poetica for the poet, and often reflect on the great mystery of death. ​ ​In time I'll go blind ​so while the lunatic moon ​crowns from the sea ​must write fast ​snatch at stars - In part three, EXPLORATIONS, Ritchie alerts us to the fact that she is coloring outside the lines. The Thing about Drinking, for example treats us to multiple personalities in a single bound, as it were. Some of these poems are simply a riot. After a long plodding trek to find a beach and finally have a swim, she is greeted with a signboard reading: BEWARE  RIPTIDES  RISKY  BOXJELLYFISH LETHAL  SHARKS  CROCODILES  The last two sections of GUY WIRES imagine other lives in the animal kingdom: FELLOWS; and, celebrate the moving force, love, pushing all of creation forward in the final section of the web titled CENTRAL. We leave them to you, no comment, to peruse at your pleasure, but only to say how proud and pleased we are to have been bitten by this exotic, startling, and powerful creature. What a poet","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52130937045265,"sku":"NLS9780990925729","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780990925729.jpg?v=1757505875"},{"product_id":"issues-of-immortality-book-elisavietta-ritchie-9781734886610","title":"Issues of Immortality","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eIssues of Immortality\u003c\/em\u003e, poems from the year of Covid-19, you feel the delicious urgency of life - in the rush of memories of what could have been when we were young ... and in the poet's ageless, and unquenchable, desire to live in her words.- Sandra Olivetti Martin, New Bay Books publisher \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52332215697681,"sku":"NLS9781734886610","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52754167333137,"sku":"NIN9781734886610","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781734886610.jpg?v=1758150909"},{"product_id":"reflections-book-elisavietta-ritchie-9780997262919","title":"Reflections","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis will be the third collection of Elisavietta Ritchie's work we have been privileged to publish, and what a remarkable collection it is, rich imagination and a talent for metaphors the hallmarks of her work. Here we see a poet at the top of her game, and game is the precise word for the often whimsical accounts she gives of the painting on which she reflects. William Meredith's short poem seems an apt introduction to the book. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne thinks of Keats' critical touchstone, the concept of negative capability he proposes, the sensitivity and imaginative power an artist has to intuit even the very center of a cue ball, the ability of the individual to perceive, think, and operate outside the box. Poets often employ this symbiotic relationship with the visual arts, a literary device known as ekphraksis used to convey the deeper symbolism of the corporeal art form by means of a separate medium such as poetry. The poet contemplates a work of art and responds with a lifetime of experience and curiosity to imagine the world found in a given painting.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHere the poems are written in the voices of the artist, his wife (who might also be an artist), his mistress, his model, his dog--One thinks of the popular film in which all the characters in the paintings in a museum step from their frames and celebrate their liberation once the museum doors have closed for the night. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis seems a happy collaboration of artist and poet enhancing our understanding of a painting, as well as taking joy in the work from a verbal prospective. How do I know what I think until I see what I say, I believe W.H. Auden once quipped.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn Chinese ideograms, a symbol for house combined with the figure of a stick woman within the house may be a symbol of peace. A plus B equals C, as it were, when a poet creates a new work standing on the shoulders of another artist creating something new under the sun.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn earlier\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003etitle for this collection, GLAD I GAVE TO ART MY ALL highlights what a long and distinguished career Lisa Ritchie has had. Perhaps only Grace Cavalieri is more prolific. When do these women sleep  I think of a William Meredith poem from HAZARD THE PAINTER which tells the story of a 8-year-old Erica, a factory of will, who when she returns from dancing class, she dances  Long may the dance continue for Lisa Ritchie and all her devoted followers who love how poetry can buoy the human spirit in the hands of such a fierce intelligence and curiosity. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52333068419345,"sku":"NLS9780997262919","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53456925262097,"sku":"NIN9780997262919","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780997262919.jpg?v=1758153595"},{"product_id":"babushka-s-beads-book-elisavietta-ritchie-9780990925798","title":"Babushka's Beads","description":"\u003cp\u003eElisavietta Ritchie is a woman who has really lived and this verbal rumination on her heritage, the\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003epeople she has loved, the family recipes for borscht or cherry vodka or bread\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eare filled with such exquisite, well-realized detail, a reader is drawn along with\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe force of a rip tide on a summer afternoon at the beach. It's all simply so interesting.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd her conversations with the past and recently dead intrigue us: It\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etolls for thee, they remind us, and yes, we all do eventually get out alive according\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eto this wise woman when it comes our time to ponder the great mystery of death.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRussia's nostalgia for its glorious past - its literature, art, dance, theatre could\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003enot be extinguished in a century of Communist revisionism. This nostalgia seems\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eworked into the very DNA of the Russian soul right down to the present day as\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe country seeks to take the world stage once again. At the root of this nostalgia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eis the ghost of a genteel aristocracy which ended in the forest assassination\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eof the Czar's family and the Russian diaspora after the world wars that\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efollowed. As one of the world's great cultures, it continues to shape history and\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eart and in this beautiful example, poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat we have to learn from the poems of Lisa Ritchie is everything worth preserving\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eand protecting in life: Love, lovers, children, cousins, parents, home, shared\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emeals, the memory of those who shaped us, the courage that won freedom, pride in\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eself and country, an abiding attachment to the beloved dead reaching to us from the\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eother side of life. Here are poems that extol life, sing of its joy, despite the cruelty and\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eentropy that threaten at every turn. Lisa Ritchie is a person you would want to know, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewhose poetry you have here, life seen through her bright, intelligent, compassionate\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eeyes, what poetry does at its best, give heart. An old proverb has it that it is in the\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eshelter of each other that we live. These poems give respite in a world too often in\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eneed of such shelter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52544091881745,"sku":"NLS9780990925798","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53132166201617,"sku":"NIN9780990925798","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780990925798.jpg?v=1760690703"},{"product_id":"feathers-book-elisavietta-ritchie-9781467556972","title":"Feathers","description":"\u003cp\u003eFeathers is a collection of poems by Elisavietta Ritchie, inspired by birds and certain humans, paired with collages of photographs of feathers and the watercolors of artist Megan Richard. Designer Suzanne Shelden has created a blending between the artist and the poet, including feathers collected by the artists, to create a depth of connection between the two and to create a book where there are no hard lines between the poems and the art. The result is a deep, visual exploration that complements the richness of the poetry in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52608713523473,"sku":"NLS9781467556972","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52750087192849,"sku":"NIN9781467556972","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781467556972.jpg?v=1761346364"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-elisavietta-ritchie.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}