Overview

In Life Lines, her second poetry collection, Beatrice J. Krauss writes with trademark wit and deep compassion. Many poems act as correspondence, letters to and from places, people, concepts, and her own various selves. Others act as travel guides, revealing our own world to us through fresh eyes and plucking the lines between us as deftly as harp strings.

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""A lifespan of poems, conveying Beatrice Krauss' lyrical, embodied knowledge of music, dance, love, loss, and finding joy wherever and whenever it is possible. Her vision of what is actual and also possible carries the reader across a geography that feels both very real and hopeful."" -Carol Kerr, co-author (with Linda Edelstein) of Not the Trip We Planned ""Krauss' poems are full of details that call us to bring joy and comfort to ourselves and to those around us. And from those moments, she unveils the solace waiting for when we step out of ourselves. Krauss' poems ask us to embrace the specificity of each encounter and to contemplate what turns an encounter into a life line."" -Robert Kaplan, author of ""Past/Present"" and Other Poems

Author Information

Beatrice J. Krauss is the author of Strong Medicine, which reflects on her career as a health psychologist and on the power of friendship, art, nature, and humor to meet life's challenges. She has been involved in dance, music, and poetry since childhood. Her dances have included ballet, modern, ballroom, and, more recently, Argentine tango. She played harp at hospice for nine years, and she has performed at events, and with symphonies and ensembles, in many states since the age of thirteen. Life Lines is her second book of poetry. Krauss is a professor emerita of public health at the City University of New York School of Public Health and Health Policy. She currently serves on the Boards of the Roots and Roads Community Hospice Foundation, Tucson, and the Rock Ethics Institute, The Pennsylvania State University. She is a Designated Campus Colleague in the Psychology Department, University of Arizona. She lives in Tucson among the cacti, mountains, quail, lizards, and hummingbirds.

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