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"What a beautiful collection of poetry that is love and happiness and sadness and loss and gains and beauty and truly, everything all at once. It's biographical in every way yet wholly relatable page after page. Further, it inspires a mental soundtrack that colors every bit of it, surely, even if you only know some of the referenced tunes. Any lover of life and music will adore this book. It is yet another excellent offering from the masterful B. Elizabeth Beck - I highly recommend it to all, and I look forward to reading it again and again. It's simply lovely. -Christy Articola, Editor/Publisher, Surrender to the Flow B. Elizabeth Beck's new collection of poems, Dancing on the Page, is an homage to the soundtrack of the process of a poet becoming herself. ""I'm still wondering how I am alive"" Beck writes in the book's opening poem, and those that follow illuminate the pathways to not just her survival, but triumph into ""air made sweet with paint, music, scarlet / begonias and sugar magnolias dance / to creek's song."" These poems and their music lead at last to home. Home in the body, home in the music. Home, finally, while dancing on the page. -Pauletta Hansel, Cincinnati Poet Laureate Emeritus, author of Heartbreak Tree Read and be soothed. Dancing on the Page is a collection that reminds us of the generational memory power of music-that songs have always helped humans ""to remember important stories"", to make sense of our lives by bringing the order of an album (or a manuscript) to our experiences. As B. Elizabeth Beck moves fluidly through time in these poems, she offers the reader wisdom across the soundtrack of her life. ""Nobody else will ever remember / you. Everyone too consumed / in their own reality..."" We are free then-to dance, to deeply feel, to let go what does not serve our song-the wrong husband might just introduce us to the right band. Beck makes an argument for music being the tool through which we most vividly experience memory; here we are reminded that ""music makes sense."" -Amelia Martens, author of The Spoons in the Grass are There to Dig a Moat B. Elizabeth Beck takes the reader on a journey through their life, connecting feelings and memories with song lyrics and titles. Goosebumps abound as memories of my own life flood through my body, instantly connected to her and everyone else who knows what it means to be saved by rock n' roll. Each poem weaves the threads of the power of music and art. My heart is ignited by the flames of truth that pour through her words. - Leah Taylor, PhD"

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