Reflections Poems & Images

by Holden, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9798350926576
• ISBN10: 8350926570
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-12-04
• Publisher: BookBaby

Summary

Reflections: Poems & Images by Elizabeth W. Holden is a collection of poems, paintings ("meusches" as she calls them) and photographs from over her lifetime. They respond to memories drawn from her 94 years and express her abiding focus on the inner life, both of her experience and of the world around her. These works also reflect her love of the beauty in nature and capture those moments of reflection that bring one in touch with the deeper meaning of one's own life.

The book contains the following sections: Seasons, Family, Nature, Places, Memories, Daydreams, Contemplative, Life, and Love.

Author Biography

Elizabeth W. Holden is a longtime resident of Black Mountain, North Carolina, having moved to the Asheville area in 1970. She has been involved in the arts all her life. In earlier days living in New Haven, Connecticut, she photographed poets for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. She has explored different mediums, always as a means to express her inner life, especially through painting and poetry. She has taught courses on dreams from a Jungian point of view and on literary works like Moby Dick. Her work has been published in the Asheville Poetry Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Her poems reveal her lifelong interests in psychology, dreams and literature.