Alice James Books

Autobiomythography of sifts through Nigerian stories and mythologies, both inherited and invented, to explore the self, family, and nationhood.In an attempt at decolonization, it is an exploration of...

Calling a Wolf a WolfAuthor: Kaveh AkbarPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: September 12, 2017Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1938584678ISBN-13:...

Camera Lyrica navigates the intersection between realism and naturalism, locating moment by moment--the only way it can--the artful, necessary, and always mysterious transformation that occurs...

Revell's fifteenth collection weaves anxiety and morality into a tangled web, asking how we're supposed to live in a world where our imaginations can cause irreparable harm. These poems investigate...

Fighting illogic with illogic, poems employ humor as a way to make effecting points about American society and cultural norms.Author: Matthew OlzmannPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: Nov...

"Kasischke's world. . .is a world in which grace and horror, beauty and carnage, tragedy and hilarity commingle."-Harvard Review"Kasischke peels back the blander surfaces of the quotidian as if to...

Here, BulletAuthor: Brian TurnerPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: November 01, 2005Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1882295552ISBN-13: 9781882295555

Hot with the Bad ThingsAuthor: Lucia LoTempioPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: May 12, 2020Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 194857909XISBN-13:...

How To Not Be Afraid Of EverythingAuthor: Jane WongPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: Oct 12, 2021Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948579219ISBN-13:...

Over the course of these poems, the Black, queer protagonist begins to erase violent structures and fill the white spaces with her hard-won wisdom and love. I am the Most Dangerous Thing doesn't just...

If This Is the Age We End DiscoveryAuthor: Rosebud Ben-OniPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: March 09, 2021Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Following the news of a long-past lover's death, In The Days That Followed grapples with the sudden knowledge of the existence of a stillborn child conceived out of wedlock and never named, and never...

The family response to the sudden deaths of the speaker's two young nieces is at the center of Catherine Barnett's award-winning first collection. This series of elegies records the transit of grief,...

One of the most beloved and influential American poets, National Book Award Winner Jean Valentine published twelve full-length collections of poetry, and all of them--plus an entirely new,...

"Like Sylvia Plath's poems, these visionary poems are not only astute records of experience, they are themselves dazzling, verbal experiences. Worldly, wily, wise: Mad Honey Symposium is an...

MadwomanAuthor: Shara MccallumPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: Jan 10, 2017Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1938584287ISBN-13: 9781938584282

With seriocomic tone, these elliptical lyrics reveal illusions and exclusions at the heart of America's global narrative of economic "progress," and the attendant loss of cultural identity and memory...

Neck of the WoodsAuthor: Amy WoolardPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: April 07, 2020Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948579073ISBN-13: 9781948579070

"In Cecily Parks' luminous and graceful poems, thought inhabits the wilderness, and wildness permeates the interior of human perception. Within these nightscapes, we find ourselves among the foxes,...

Odes to LithiumAuthor: Shira ErlichmanPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: September 17, 2019Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948579030ISBN-13:...

Afaa Michael Weaver says, "This is a taut and wise collection... The craft is impeccable, the inner vision revelatory..."Author: Ellen WatsonPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: Jan 09,...

"Sand Opera is what political poetry must be like today in our age of seemingly permanent war."--Mark NowakSand Opera emerges from the dizzying position of being named but unheard as an Arab American...

"The delicate arc of these poems intimates--rather than tells--a love story: celebration, fear of loss, storm, abandonment, an opening forth. Richie Hofmann disciplines his natural elegance into the...

Gripping and terrifying, eloquent and heartwrenching, this debut collection delves into hellish territory: prison life. Soulful poems somberly capture time-bending experiences and the survivalist...

Of all the losses we may be asked to bear, the murder of one's child must be the most terrible. These poems evoke that keenly, seeking justice but transcending judgment as they grieve loss, celebrate...

Soft ScienceAuthor: Franny ChoiPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: April 02, 2019Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1938584996ISBN-13: 9781938584992

A profound and intersectional text, Song of My Softening is a queer, fat, love song of the interior. Poems study the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship...

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as the narrator is diagnosed and treated for breast cancer at the age of thirty-six during a time of...

"Fairchild's ability not only to choose a story but to pace it and to reveal its meaning through the unfolding of the narrative is probably unmatched in contemporary American poetry. The incisive...

B.H. Fairchild's The Art of the Lathe is a collection of poems centering on the working-class world of the Midwest, the isolations of small-town life, and the possibilities and occasions of beauty...