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Elizabeth Spires

Born

Lancaster, Ohio, The United States

Genre

Poetry, Children's Books

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Elizabeth Spires (1952–) is the author of five collections of poetry as well as several books for children. Spires' books of poetry include Now the Green Blade Rises, Worldling, Annonciade, Swan's Island, and Globe. Spires' books for children include The Mouse of Amherst, I Am Arachne, and Riddle Road. Spires also served as Editor for The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose of Josephine Jacobsen.

Spires has been the recipient a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1998 she received the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Maryland Author Award from the Ma ...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 1,014 ratings · 190 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Mouse of Amherst 3.96 avg rating — 327 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kate's Light: Kate Walker at Robbins Reef Lighthouse by Elizabeth Spires, Emily Arnold McCully (Illustrator) 4.30 avg rating — 221 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings 3.84 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wave-Maker: Poems 3.59 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am Arachne: Fifteen Greek and Roman Myths by Elizabeth Spires, Mordicai Gerstein (Illustrator) 3.75 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Memory of the Future: Poems 3.74 avg rating — 50 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	With One White Wing: Puzzles in Poems and Pictures by Elizabeth Spires, Erik Blegvad (Illustrator) 3.25 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Now the Green Blade Rises: Poems 4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Worldling 3.50 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Globe really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A King Who Keeps To Himself Dwells"

A king who keeps to himself dwells
in a humble house with his sole servant.
While his body-man eats, drinks, feels fever
and chills, and plucks gray hairs from his head,
his master knows nothing of thirst or hunger,
illness or age. They set out together, but whether
fortune or misfortune awaits them on the world’s
wide road depends on the servant’s whim, faithful
or unfaithful to his king. Along the way, a kinswoman,
mother and sister to them both, offers them a room,
a mean, but the soon press on, until the old servant
can go no farther. He stumbles, falls, and cannot
rise again. Then the king, without a glance backward,
continues on to a country we shall all come to know.
Whoever knows this pair, say their names.

(and the answer is body and soul)”
― Elizabeth Spires

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“I shall say a prayer to the Moon
because even a badger prays now and then:

O Silver Sliver,
shine down on me and change me
so that I am what I am,
not two things, no not two!

But the Moon never answers.
It grows smaller as it ascends,
as if someone or something were eating it.
I understand such hunger.”
― Elizabeth Spires, I Am Arachne: Fifteen Greek and Roman Myths

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