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About the Author Elizabeth M. Come died on December 7, 1999, just one month short of her 82nd birthday, following her gradual descent into the despair of Alzheimers. Married at twenty-one, she had been cheerful and laughing, a devoted mother of two sons, and a loving daughter to her aging parents. In the early seventies, after her parents died and her sons had gone on to their own lives, and her husband was busy as a professor and academic administrator, she became totally absorbed in the study of ancient archaeology and history, she and a friend organized and managed a very successful thrift shop, and, contrary to her private nature, she gave scintillating annual reports to the organization sponsoring the shop. And she was secretly writing poetry. Her husband wrote of her: 'The other human being whom you know most intimately remains a fathomless well of mysterious unknown depths and complexity. The closer you come to the other one's mystery, and the more the other one reveals of that mystery, the more clearly you come to see that there are even vaster regions and depths of the other's interior being which remain unknown and in large measure unknowable.' Product Description Truth Is Beauty That Hurts The Collected Poems of Elizabeth M. Come There is much to love and enjoy in the poetry of Elizabeth M. Come, as you are about to discover. She was a woman who paid attention to the world, both outside her windows, and within. Her poems are filled with inner visions, of peace and aliveness and God, as well as a sense of the mystical wonders of nature, big as the sky, tiny as 'the lace-making spider.' She often reminds me of Emily Dickinson, and yet has a very specific charm all her own. These poems are filled with a sense of love and hurt, sensuality, creation, God and romantic love, animals and the soul, sweetness and anger, and a fierce social conscience.... Wise, and spiritual, and down to earth, she can be funny, and then she can break your heart; so there is joy in this poetry, and healing, sharp insight, truth, and pleasure. - from the Foreword by Anne Lamott, author of Crooked Little Heart