Nothing But the Sea

About the Book

Elizabeth Cusack’s latest exploration of Sappho and the perplexing dilemmas of love is a combination of prayerful entreaties to Aphrodite to bring that solace and then reminiscences of surviving the loss. These are poems of what love offers, of having love, and then joy eclipsed by circumstances as impersonal as war and as intimate as betrayal. Difficult times require clarity of insight, and in these poems we hear, as though through a tangy sea-borne breeze, a voice both ancient yet alive with passionate vibrancy. – Harry Kollatz Jr., “Carlisle Montgomery”

About the Author

Elizabeth Cusack is a native of California. She has lived in towns and villages in England, in the City of London, and in Seoul, South Korea. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art at Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire. Elizabeth began acting professionally at the age of eighteen and for most of her life has been active in the dramatic arts. Since 2020 she has published poetry online and with Fevers of the Mind Press. Lovers Leap (2024), her first book of poetry, was inspired by the life of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho. Her latest book Nothing But the Sea (2024) is suitable as a short play or performance piece celebrating Sappho.