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Firewords: Poetry that goes down like firewater & explodes into showers of light
A daring debut poetry volume 30 years in the making.
firewords is a full-color, sweet and saucy collection of poems about relationships, heartbreak lust and love. Written between 1995 and 2024, the progression of voice follows an ever-expanding experience of endearment in all its iterations. Lines evoke a first love and first loss. Motherhood after so long a wait. Falling in and out of love. And, yes, the feverish press of foreign flesh.
Readers relate to the poignant stanzas in their own personal way. Asking questions. Nodding in recognition. With a throbbing heart. With a blaze of passion.
firewords includes previously published poems as well as works never seen before. Works include free verse, form poetry, a funky collection of 30-year-old magnetic poems that are oddly sexual as magnetic poems tend to be. Turn to any poem and allow it to speak to you, or read them in order for a waterbed effect of rising and falling, rolling and sloshing along with the poet.
This poetry volume is intended to be shared. Leave your book on the coffee table to deepen conversation with visitors. It’s ok with the poet if your pet chews on the corners because everything is better with character and pet hair. Give copies to friends, a lover, adult child, or complete strangers with your favorite and their future favorite poems and lines marked.
Or, if you must, curl around the paperback in bed, armed with flags and color-coded highlighters. With P✫U✫N✫ The Unofficial firewords Companion parsing out the poet’s meaning, rewrite the lines in your image. Make them sound “right” as part of your story and take them as your own.
Feel the burn & taste the rainbow.For a bigger bang, Get P✫U✫N✫ The Unofficial firewords Companion. The poet reveals the story behind each piece. Sometimes unremarkable, and sometimes shocking.
About the poet & author.Elizabeth Chandler is a poet, author, advocate, instructor and mother. She was first published in a poetry anthology in 1991 under a pen name that was a misspelled anagram for “original.” Since then, she’s published dozens of works and 13 bestselling novels.
She is an active participant in multiple sapphic and lesfic groups including iHeart Sapphfic and Moms Who Write. Chandler presented at the Golden Crown Literary Society national conference in 2023, six local conferences and workshops in North Carolina as well as the regional Pike’s Peak Writers Conference in 2024.
Elizabeth, who fancies herself funny AF, lives near Asheville, NC with her two young children. When she’s not chasing kiddos, Elizabeth enjoys distance running, writing fiction and poetry, and playing games with “framily.”
Readers relate to the poignant stanzas in their own personal way. Asking questions. Nodding in recognition. With a throbbing heart. With a blaze of passion.
firewords includes previously published poems as well as works never seen before. Works include free verse, form poetry, a funky collection of 30-year-old magnetic poems that are oddly sexual as magnetic poems tend to be. Turn to any poem and allow it to speak to you, or read them in order for a waterbed effect of rising and falling, rolling and sloshing along with the poet.
This poetry volume is intended to be shared. Leave your book on the coffee table to deepen conversation with visitors. It’s ok with the poet if your pet chews on the corners because everything is better with character and pet hair. Give copies to friends, a lover, adult child, or complete strangers with your favorite and their future favorite poems and lines marked.
Or, if you must, curl around the paperback in bed, armed with flags and color-coded highlighters. With P✫U✫N✫ The Unofficial firewords Companion parsing out the poet’s meaning, rewrite the lines in your image. Make them sound “right” as part of your story and take them as your own.
Feel the burn & taste the rainbow.For a bigger bang, Get P✫U✫N✫ The Unofficial firewords Companion. The poet reveals the story behind each piece. Sometimes unremarkable, and sometimes shocking.
About the poet & author.Elizabeth Chandler is a poet, author, advocate, instructor and mother. She was first published in a poetry anthology in 1991 under a pen name that was a misspelled anagram for “original.” Since then, she’s published dozens of works and 13 bestselling novels.
She is an active participant in multiple sapphic and lesfic groups including iHeart Sapphfic and Moms Who Write. Chandler presented at the Golden Crown Literary Society national conference in 2023, six local conferences and workshops in North Carolina as well as the regional Pike’s Peak Writers Conference in 2024.
Elizabeth, who fancies herself funny AF, lives near Asheville, NC with her two young children. When she’s not chasing kiddos, Elizabeth enjoys distance running, writing fiction and poetry, and playing games with “framily.”
93 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 3, 2025
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