Elizabeth Robinson is the author of several collections of poetry, including the National Poetry Series winner, Pure Descent, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, On Ghosts. Her creative nonfiction has recently won Editor's Choice awards from Scoundrel Time and New Letters.
Presence: that-which-is-larger-than-the-self-into-which-the-self-might-enter. Is presence the “transcendent”? Is it “God” (or “god”)?
Years ago, I asked students in a creative writing class to tell me the words that they most loved. Several of them chose showy, poetic words I don’t remember. But one young man said, “Fullness.” The very breath as it was expelled from his lungs seemed to fill the word. Fullness: fullness as a synonym […]
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