Bøger udgivet af Alice James Books

Last Days is a practice of radical imagination for our current political and environmental crises. It excavates the conditions that have brought us hereawhite supremacy, heteropatriarchy, corporate power, capitalismaand calls ancestors, birds, organizers, and lovers to conjure a new world. It explores how to transform our future to be more beautiful, more just, and more compassionate than we can imagine.

From the unique perspective of a U.S. Forest Service elite, a Type 1 Interagency "e;Hotshot"e; Crew (the "e;SEAL Team Six of the firefighting world"e;), poems weave together memory, urgency, and the passage of time. Features segments from actual incident reports, forcing readers to witness what it's like to stand before an inferno, walking with one foot in the black.

A fascinating blend of poetry and science, Ben-Oni's poems are precisely crafted, like a surgeon sewing a complicated stitch. The speaker of the collection falls ill, and takes comfort in exploring the idea of "e;Efes"e; which is "e;zero"e; in Modern Hebrew, using that nullification to be a means of transformation.

Inheritance is a black sensorium, a chapel of color and sound that speaks to spaciousness, surveillance, identity, desire, and transcendence. Influenced by everyday moments of Washington, DC living, the poems live outside of the outside and beyond the language of categorical difference, inviting anyone listening to listen a bit closer. Inheritance is about the self's struggle with definition and assumption.

Mead's poetry finds beauty in intense and often painful emotions, inviting the idea there is always light and strength within.