Alice James Books

A quiet swan song, Robertson's debut explores what it means to celebrate life and learn how to die.Author: Kristin RobertsonPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: May 16, 2017Number of Pages:...

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...

Sarah Manguso's first collection, a combination of verse and prose poems, explores love, nostalgia, remorse, and the joyful and mysterious preparation for the discoveries of new lands, selves, and...

These gently fragmented narrative lyrics pursue enlightenment in long, elegant yet plain-spoken, dark yet ecstatic lines. Ali travels by water and by night, seeking the Far Mosque and its overarching...

While Turner (author of Here, Bullet) grieves the loss of his wife to cancer, The Goodbye World Poem is a series of poetic meditations that sit quietly in the silent "afterward" of someone's death...

Nationally acclaimed and multi-award-winning poet, Ostriker, brings The Holy & Broken Bliss to light after the pandemic--these keenly observant and urgent poems feel grounded in daily life, the...

Of The Moon Reflected Fire and its subject, the Vietnam War, poet James Tate writes: "These are trenchant, wrenching poems. With artistry and honesty they perform an inquest into war and its...

The Voice of Sheila ChandraAuthor: Kazim AliPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: October 06, 2020Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 194857912XISBN-13:...

Although grief is at the forefront of these poems, The Wild Delight of Wild Things is a simple love letter to Turner's late wife, poet Ilyse Kusnetz (1966-2016). The poems are also a love letter to...

Theault -apeackAuthor: Andrã©S CerpaPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: June 15, 2021Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948579189ISBN-13: 9781948579186

Moving between the scriptures of the Qur'an and the Bible, these poems explore the complexities and spectacles of gender, faith, and family by unraveling the age-old idea that seeing is believing...

Thief in the InteriorAuthor: Phillip B. WilliamsPublisher: Alice James BooksPublication Date: January 12, 2016Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1938584171ISBN-13:...

WISH AVE is a book whose striving is human intimacy--through conversation, through silence, through memory, through loss, through art, through trauma, through nature. The book gives voice to the lack...

"Defiant and uncategorizable, Lo Kwa Mei-en's Yearling, with its teeming species, battles, and passions, read like an illuminated manuscript: mysterious, visceral, awe-full. Hers are some of the most...

In Zombie Vomit Mad Libs, the climate has changed, and what mostly remains are zombies meandering through a world where we only have brief memories--where connection (human and zombie) is now only...