Water-Gazers - Paperback

by Diane Kistner (Editor), Elizabeth Schultz (Author)

Elizabeth Schultz's sixth book of poetry, WATER-GAZERS, confirms and inspires our dependency on and our fascination with water. With particular attention to lakes and oceans, her poetry considers water not only as a source of multitudinous life, but specifically as a source of joy, of surprise, and occasionally of distress and disaster. The rhythms of water are the rhythms of her poetry. Schultz's poems allow us to contemplate our diverse relationships with water as we share it with other living beings, as we travel across it, as we abuse it, and as we listen to it in our dreams.

Author Biography

Living in Kansas, Elizabeth Schultz deeply appreciates the sea-of-grass which characterizes the Great Plains. However, her summers have always been spent on the shores of Higgins Lake in Michigan and in sailing the world's oceans. Following a career of teaching American literature at the University of Kansas, in Japan, and China, she has published studies of Herman Melville, a personal memoir, a collection of short stories, a collection of nature essays, and five books of poetry, including Conversations at the Spencer Museum of Art, Her Voice, The Sauntering Eye, The Quickening, and Mrs. Noah Takes the Helm.