Pierced by the Seasons

Elizabeth Garber’s first collection of poems invites us to intimately experience her vision of the small coastal town in Maine where she lives. Through her eyes, we share the poignancy of her observations throughout a year of seasons. Each poem is lovingly crafted, richly compelling and glows with a radiant awareness.

Warm yourself with haiku composed while she cross-country skis on fresh snow along a stream. Refresh yourself with a poem of kayaking at dawn out of a small harbor.  Feel the rhythm of a daily life, walking past streets of white clapboard houses on her morning walk to the ocean and listening to patient stories in her acupuncture office.

You will be moved and changed from reading her poems honoring the grief of a widower, her son turning 18, and the end of a romance. You’ll find yourself seeing more deeply into the simple moments of your life after reading a poem about shopping with her daughter, and playing in a blizzard with her mother. This collection awakens a yearning for more awareness, joy and compassion in our daily lives.

“Through the lens of the seasons in Maine, Elizabeth W. Garber celebrates the joys of living on the earth. Hers is a poetry of passionate appreciation; it reverberates deep within us as its words engage the magic that serenades us each moment.”
—Baron Wormser, Maine’s second Poet Laureate

“Elizabeth Garber’s poetry is informed by a human warmth and emotional honesty which make her book hard for any reader to put down. In her lovely, lively poems we experience a fresh, honest, and beautiful response to life that is also strengthening. These are the richly-lived moments of an open heart, presented with skill and compassion.”
—Kate Barnes, Maine’s first Poet Laureate