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SINGING ON THE SEA WALL Poems of the Gulf South By Elizabeth Hillery Sullivan
. . it is good to know that someone can still write a ballad. ?
Carl Sandburg, commenting on ?Charon Speaks?, a poem by Elizabeth Hillery Sullivan
Elizabeth Hillery Sullivan was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1902 and reared in New Orleans. She began writing poetry, or, as she says, ?making music with words,? before she was ten years old. Descended from aristocratic Louisiana French families and pioneer Swedish stock, she enjoyed all the advantages that the Creole City on the Mississippi River could give a talented and artistic young lady.
The poet?s romance with the sea began when her family left New Orleans each summer, traveling to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to escape the heat of the city. On the coast, she began writing about ?the light of shimmering sunlight and moonlight on the waters, and the opal lights of the sea-shells along the shore.? These and other experiences are vividly recorded in her poems.
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