Hearkening back to the medieval devotional books of hours used for daily prayer, poet Elizabeth Bodien takes notice of ordinary moments throughout the day, making them into opportunities for extraordinary attention and reverence.
Elizabeth Bodien grew up in the "burned-over" district of western New York State, but now lives near Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania. She holds degrees in cultural anthropology, consciousness studies, religions, and poetry. She has worked as an instructor of English in Japan; an organic farmer in the mountains of Oregon; a childbirth instructor in Ghana, West Africa; and as a professor of anthropology. Her poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in Cimarron Review, Crannóg, and Parabola, among many other publications in the United States, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and India. Her collections are: Plumb Lines; Rough Terrain: Notes of an Undutiful Daughter, which is about her mother's decline with Alzheimer's; Endpapers; I Sing the Undersung; and Blood, Metal, Fiber, Rock. She has appeared on television and radio and taught workshops on poetry and poetics. Currently she is working on a collection of her trance writings. ¿ www.elizabethbodien.com
