I Shall Go As I Came
Poetry | Soft cover | 64 pages
In this collection, you will find “poems that sing beautifully of nature, love, loss, of communication across time and species: the ancient lovers’ bones found in Verona, daylilies, toads, and the bright yellow flash of the butterflyfish,” quotes poet Moira Egan. You will feel as though you know Ellen intimately, that each poem is the brother of the poem preceding and following it. You will feel as Clare Banks did, that Ellen “confronts the sublime and the awe-inspiring in the everyday.”
Ellen Kirvin Dudis (1942-2012) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She and her husband Joe eventually bought a farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and started Five Deer Farm Nursery, where she lived among hundreds, if not thousands, of white pines, blue spruce, Leyland cypress, magnolias, Douglas firs, Norway spruce and Atlas cedars.
She devoted her time to her family, farm, fishing, writing, cutting firewood, swimming, and exploring from the barrier islands of Virginia, to the art museums of Philadelphia and Washington D.C., to the thrift shops of Atlantic City’s back streets.
“In Ellen Kirvin Dudis’s contemplative collection, her painterly hand considers everything from the ephemeral to the domestic, Eurydice to Whitman. In each finely crafted poem, her voice is at once visceral and reflective; and in this musical, syllabic play — often in sonnet form — Dudis confronts the sublime and awe-inspiring in the everday.”
Clare banks
“With formal skills as deft as they are subtle, Ellen Kirvin Dudis explores the age-old themes of poetry, keeping them alive and relevant.”
Moira egan
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