Born in Chicago at the height of the Chicago Literary Renaissance, Elise Asher began her creative career writing poetry, which culminated in a collection titled "The Meandering Absolute." In the 1940's she moved to Greenwich Village in New York and immersed herself in the community of artists there.
Eventually she tried her hand at painting, creating mystical landscapes in a vivid palette, and was pleased at the way she could transcend language by applying brush to canvas. Using her poet (showing 500 of 1564 characters). |
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