A Woman Kneeling in the Big City/Poems Author:Elizabeth Macklin Elizabeth Macklin is a poet of the city. Her subjects are everywhere: inside apartment houses and alongside towering buildings, on streets and sidewalks, or beneath them, at the water's edge and in the changing heavens. In her able hands, through her painterly eye and rich vision, the odd scraps of urban life are converted ... more »into a sort of Platonic dialogue of fruitful enigmas, paradoxes, and playful epiphanies. .« less