Passionate Lives
Eight Autobiographical Poem Cycles
Over the past 20 years, Liz Claman has worked primarily as an educator and editor. In December 1997 she completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon, where she taught French and Comparative Literature. Now she divides her time between scholorly and creative pursuits, always trying to create bridges between the two.
Her poetry and prose have appeared in many reviews inclusing Mississippi Mud, Alaska Quarterly Review, River Styx, Hurricane Alice, Negative Capability, Bastard Review, Northwest Review, Two Girls Review, Silverfish Review, Fireweed, Many Mountains Moving, Hubbub, and in the anthologies, Night Out (Milkweed Editions, 1997), and Women's Struggles, Womens's Visions (Maude Kerns, 1993).
She is the founder and editor of Queen Swords Press.
An excerpt from Snow:
Across a virgin orchard, still except our puffing breath and crunch, crunch underfoot. Then deer. A little herd fast by, reaching up the trees for fruit, frozen but still fragrant. We stood entranced--a gift.
