Blue Lovers by Liz Paul

“Elizabeth Paul’s Blue Lovers both responds to art and is artful as it spins out the story of a long relationship. Composed in concert with the carnival of Chagall’s imagination and the author’s own, the book is playful, elastic, and surreal, steeped in blues and pinks, in goats, birds, fish, and acrobats, in newness and maturity, in time and non-time, in what things are and what they are not, in dreams and in waking—not from a dream, but from unexamined reality in order to explore deeper facets of realness. Mostly, love lives here, ardent, searching, celebratory—a love that holds ‘a heart in the hand, a tractor-beam animal loyalty.’ These lyric missives assert that ‘We have always been at each other’s windows,’ and we, as readers, are lucky to share these views.”

— Rebecca Hart Olander, Author of Uncertain Acrobats

About the Author:

Elizabeth Paul is a teacher, writer, and artist living in Fairfax, Virginia. Her work has appeared in Cider Press Review, Cold Mountain Review, Sweet Lit, and The Carolina Quarterly, among other places. Collaborative work has appeared in several journals and in They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press). Her chapbook Reading Girl (Finishing Line Press) is an ekphrastic exploration of the work of Henri Matisse. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and finalist for the Gournay Prize and the Orison Anthology Best Spiritual Literature Award in Non-fiction. Website: elizabethsgpaul.com