This book represents a transformational approach to the visual arts as well as poetry. As a collaborative experiment, both visual arts and poetry help to bridge the arts and inspire the development of new poems.

Reading Elizabeth Martina Bishop's poetry Is not unlike visiting a flower market That provides a visual feast. Poetry is released when in full bloom. It is here for sale. For the price of a bouquet of roses. Choose to buy the flowers or the book. We don't care, as long as you consider it An act of loving kindness towards yourself.

This collection of poems inspires, educates, and challenges readers to face life's daily vicissitudes and enjoy the journey towards enlightenment whatever way the path unfolds. Why write poetry? When you read the poems in this collection, you will get a taste of a poet's palette in a wisdom-filled landscape of the surreal and magical.

This book is for those who would like to slow down and observe a pleasing cornucopia accompanying poetic images as well as the musical slant of words upon the page. This kaleidoscopic entry of calendar poems embracing timeless portraits of inner and outer space may provide a meditation on gift and grace on a daily basis.

Volume Two of Selected Poems reflects Bishop's diverse and divergent style ranging from heart-rending lyrics to poignant narratives, monologues and plays. Generally her style mirrors the concerns of indigenous people and the mysterious nature of image and metaphor bursting upon the stage of life. In her work she struggles against the diaspora of time, aging and the ability to restore the strength of remembrance, memoir and epiphany. Without the gift of poetry, we cannot celebrate the soul's astonishment and grace that transforms and shapes the life experience.

These poems are about opening doors to new realities experienced by the critical mass of people at the present time. Against the changing dialectic and synergistic tapestry of history which, like the wind, is always changing, poetry unfolds.

The poems viewed here suggest an integrated aesthetics indicating poetry persists in multiple forms. Poetry may be seen as a part of our lives lived in harmony and balance. In the old days, when people celebrated the harvest before maypoles and wore floral wreaths, flowers were a constant reminder of nature's abundance. Naissance des Jeux de Floreaux beckons towards the old days when flowers communicated a heartfelt abundance of messages drawn from metaphysical realms; global warming had not yet become a reality.

Diaphanous and Flowing introduces poems penned by Elizabeth Martina Bishop. The poems translate from supernatural realms into the realms of every day existence. How should a poet act? Is poetry a practical aspect of a mystical life? Are there aesthetic boundaries between the scientific and the more poetic and intuitive realms? If so, what happens when a poet transgresses these boundaries? What are the cultural issues that emerge? Is feminism a practical art?