"These are wonderful, witty, wise poems in love with language and singing the music of the world with all its pleasures and piquancies, its oddities and tragedies. Ellen Dore Watson's vision is agile with quick shifts in direction and vivid juxtapositions. The poems in pray me stay eager contain multitudes " --Ellen Bass
A dreamy voice turns dark and gritty as Ellen Dore Watson interrogates personal purpose in the face of looming mortality. Poems sway comfortably, fluidly through associative discourse, radiating and championing love and adoration, indulging in simple pleasures...
"These are wonderful, witty, wise poems in love with language and singing the music of the world with all its pleasures and piquancies, its odditie...