Elizabeth Clayton

Broschiertes Buch

Chanson de Harold

The Richard Poems

Beschreibung

Elizabeth and Richard were fated to live a tragic love story. They met and immediately fell in love, despite emotional disorders that threatened their personal relationships. Elizabeth suffered from bipolar disorder; Richard, from a personality disorder. Yet, somehow, their own mental flaws came together to form a perfect unit that allowed them to love each other wholeheartedly until Richard's death in 1992. With the advent of new medicine, Elizabeth slowly got better, while Richard did not. This separation of effective treatment led to Richard's alienation of his wife, mainly through alcohol, until his demons took him away from his loving wife forever. It was heart-wrenching for Elizabeth, who over the course of twenty-two years had developed a symbiotic relationship with her husband-his inadequacies feeding hers, and vice versa. The only way to exorcise her own mental demons was to write, and write she did. Chanson de Harold is a semi-autobiographical collection of poems, written as an ode to her marriage. It follows an ill-fated knight as he is slowly swallowed by the evils of his own mind. It is an exercise in catharsis, as a wife struggles to survive the loss of true love-one verse at a time-and heal from her own psychological wounds in the process.

Autor

Elizabeth Clayton began teaching at the age of twenty at the University of Southern Mississippi. Presently retired, she is spending her days reviewing and preparing her works for publication. Clayton has published eighteen works (primarily poetry) since the release of her autobiography in 2007, which chronicles her struggles with bipolar disorder. In November 2012, she was inducted into the Literary Hall of Fame, Sigma Kappa Delta, and nominated for the Eric Hoffer award by her publisher in early spring 2013. She is also featured in the summer 2013 quarter of Forward Magazine, and her work, Scarlet Flow, was shown in the World Book fair in London, England in early 2013, receiving the Golden Seal of Excellence Award in 2014, following.Additionally, on January 5 and February 9, 2014, she was featured in the New York Times "New Voices, New Perspectives" segment; her most recent work, Quiet Sheba, a trilogy, begun in 2015 was completed (two final volumes) in February 2016. For this work, she received the Golden Seal of Excellence Award from her publisher. More recently, her latest work, We Lesser Gods, was published in late summer 2016, its addendum receiving the Golden Seal of Excellence Award in summer 2017.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trafford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9781426969928
• ISBN-10: 1426969929
• Artikelnr.: 33800957