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"""A richly sensory, deeply observed recreation of a piece of the world whose flavors range from wheezing buses to violent storms to yellow orchids and chiclet gum to the bitterness of desire and the death of children and the cruelty of war. Elaine Chamberlain sees it all-and smells and tastes it and hears and touches it.""-Ann Goldsmith ""Elaine Chamberlain's poems are prayers lush with the melody of the landscapes and heartbreak of dying children in Chiapas, Mexico, where the poet was a nurse for many years. And the legs / turn in at the knees / and bow / as if hunger / were a horse / to be ridden. Each poem wraps itself around me with its compassion and honesty and shakes my humanity, demanding I give thanks for my body and the breath that keeps me alive. These poems crack me open and make me feel the way only the best poems can. You will be enraptured by the stories of the people, and the landscape that Elaine Chamberlain so gorgeously describes: I did not know / I could love a valley / and a mountain / as much as I have loved / a man / and a child."" -Sara Ries-Dziekonski"

A richly sensory, deeply observed recreation of a piece of the world whose flavors range from wheezing buses to violent storms to yellow orchids and chiclet gum to the bitterness of desire and the death of children and the cruelty of war. Elaine Chamberlain sees it all-and smells and tastes it and hears and touches it. -Ann Goldsmith Elaine Chamberlain's poems are prayers lush with the melody of the landscapes and heartbreak of dying children in Chiapas, Mexico, where the poet was a nurse for many years. And the legs / turn in at the knees / and bow / as if hunger / were a horse / to be ridden. Each poem wraps itself around me with its compassion and honesty and shakes my humanity, demanding I give thanks for my body and the breath that keeps me alive. These poems crack me open and make me feel the way only the best poems can. You will be enraptured by the stories of the people, and the landscape that Elaine Chamberlain so gorgeously describes: I did not know / I could love a valley / and a mountain / as much as I have loved / a man / and a child. -Sara Ries-Dziekonski

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Elaine R. Chamberlain grew up in Seattle, lived in Mexico, and now resides near Buffalo, New York. Elaine is a former area coordinator of the New York State Poets in the Schools program. She is one of the original staff members of Earth's Daughters literary magazine. She taught Creative Writing and Composition at Erie Community College in Buffalo, New York.

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