Elyssa East
Elyssa East is an American nonfiction writer. She is the author of the creative nonfiction book Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, which chronicles a murder that occurred in an area known as Dogtown, Massachusetts, just outside Gloucester, in 1984. As part of her research for the book, East interviewed the murderer, Peter Hodgkins, in prison. This nonfiction book won the 2010 L. L. Winship/P.E.N. New England Award and has been critically reviewed. According to East, the book was inspired in part by the paintings of Dogtown by Marsden Hartley.
East grew up in Marietta, GA and attended Reed College, where she graduated with a degree in Art History in 1994. She went on to receive an MFA from Columbia University. She currently lives in New York. She has previously taught Creative Writing at Purchase College and Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently a part-time creative nonfiction instructor at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
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Les Voyages De L'ame
by: AlcestCe soir sans doute mon âme,
Asservie, usée par les bas chagrins,
Sentira le besoin de fuir sa prison de chair.
Très loin de nous, de notre temps,
Elle s'en ira rejoindre les étoiles.
Elles lui parleront de sa propre existence
En des mots purs et silencieux,
Et lui montreront un chemin
Menant vers les havres inconnus
Reliant ciel et terre.
Ces contrées lontaines,
Où les hautes herbes dans les champs vermeils
A jamais valsent avec la lumière;
Où peuvent librement errer
Tous les souvenirs de nos vies sur Terre
Ces contrées lontaines,
Où les hautes herbes dans les champs vermeils
A jamais valsent avec la lumière;
Où peuvent librement errer
Tous les souvenirs de nos vies sur Terre