Praise for Elisavietta Ritchie's Work:


      "Elisavietta Ritchie's work is original, varied and exciting, and has been growing steadily in scope and control. The core of her poems is vitality. Grim, joyous, exuberant or erotic, they have a strong and vivid life." 


     					Josephine Jacobsen
					US Poet Laureate, 1971-73
  
   "Witty, sharp, sensual, possessed of a scientist's eye for the precise detail, the memorable image. Elisavietta Ritchie is in love with the natural world of maggot, freezing bilge, the "owl on unheard wings," "berries fed on ash and blood," "branches with lavender fire." She brings a tuned ear for the music of language, a storyteller's gift and a generosity of spirit that delights as it informs." 
                                  
          	Colette Inez


  "Elisavietta Ritchie's poetry combines a Byzantine elegance with straight-forward plain style honesty. The extraordinary range of her interests: work, love, sensuality, and man's plight in a forlorn civilization-is reinforced by her exquisite regard for language and lively fascination with the possibilities of form." 


William Packard

Elisavietta Ritchie is a writer and translator who lives in Washington and Southern Maryland with her husband Clyde Farnsworth. They have traveled widely and recounted their life as citizens of the world in various genres.