Collection: Alice James Books
-
Something went wrong
Please try again
The pitch
Tom Thompson,Urban experience drives the savvy, energetic lyrics of Tom Thompson's impressive second collection.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Slamming open the door
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno,Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno's heartrending autobiographical collection inspires both compassion for and awe of the human spirit.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
The moon reflected fire
Doug Anderson,Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Parable of hide and seek
Chad Sweeney,Chad Sweeney’s imaginative poems embark on a tour of magical realism both breathtaking and slightly awry.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Pier
Janine Oshiro,Called a truly masterful first book’ by Cole Swenson, Pier is the inaugural winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Beloved idea
Ann Killough,Ann Killough's insistent debut is a quest to lovingly deconstruct, and construct anew, a nation ideal.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Sudden dog
Matthew Pennock,This post-modern Romantic struggles against the frenetic torpor of modernity and gives us poems that make us feel more alive.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
The captain lands in paradise
Sarah Manguso,Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
The world in place of itself
Bill Rasmovicz,This neo-baroque, hypnotic debut reads like transcribed fever dreams, employing elements of film noir and surrealism.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
The usable field
Jane Mead,The poems in Jane Mead's musical, meditative third collection yearn for acceptance as they struggle with loss.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Dark elderberry branch: poems of marina tsvetaeva
Ilya Kaminsky, Jean Valentine, Marina Tsvetaeva,Two of America's most passionate poets work magic to unearth the true voice of Tsvetaeva, to "open [her] veins."
Regular price $15.00Sale price $15.00 Regular price $15.00Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
King baby
Lia Purpura,This award-winning poet's third collection tells a quasi-creation story through petitions, addresses, and conversations.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Live feed
Tom Thompson,The poems in Live Feed examine how we live our lives on-screen. The commerce machine often assumes the persona of "the city," a place where the speaker seeks an accommodation between urbanicity and organicity, attempting to make some sort of whole of our fractured society, sensibilities, and lives.
Regular price $11.95Sale price $11.95 Regular price $11.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
A thief of strings
Donald Revell,Acclaimed poet's tenth collection chronicles our seeming, and apocalyptic, liberation from conscience and consciousness itself.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Lit from inside: 40 years of poetry from alice james books
Anne Marie Macari, Carey Salerno, Maxine Kumin,This distinctive anthology from a foremost American literary press is a must-have for all serious readers of contemporary poetry.
Regular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Father dirt
Mihaela Moscaliuc,This courageous autobiographical collection disarms us, exposing cultural oppression and igniting compassion with honest, enchanting language.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Begin anywhere
Frank Giampietro,Beleaguered, appealing self-as-persona wades through crowded, messy rooms of adulthood in this unpredictable debut.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Take what you want
Henrietta Goodman,This spirited debut applies the analytic and somatic to realities and mysteries of love and motherhood.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Black crow dress
Roxane Beth Johnson,Ghosts of American slaves have much to teach us. Johnson, in her second collection, summons all ghosts, even our own.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
The temple gate called beautiful
David Kirby,An erudite, fast-talking, visionary, myth-busting black comedy of the afterlife narrated by a hopeful non-believer.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Panic
Laura McCullough,Laura McCullough’s silent scream challenges conventional responses to tragedy with deft lyricism and almost ancient eyes.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Equivocal
Julie Carr,Author's second collection explores elements of chance and mystery that determine human identity and relationships.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Lie down too
Lesle Lewis,Here, the very small becomes our very center. Paradoxical and associative, the cracking of each poem’s hardened chrysalis enlightens us.
Regular price $16.95Sale price $16.95 Regular price $16.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Door to a noisy room
Peter Waldor,This pithy debut collection negotiates, through playful meditations, our uneasy coexistence in the marketplace and home.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
The wanderer king
Theodore Deppe,Regular price $11.95Sale price $11.95 Regular price $11.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Landscapes i & ii
Lesle Lewis,The whimsical, highly animated landscapes of Lesle Lewis' second collection will surprise and delight.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Rough cradle
Betsy Sholl,This acclaimed poet's seventh collection entreats us to love everything before we lose everything.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Phantom noise
Brian Turner,A soldier struggles to reintegrate, exploring the foundations of the psyche and how history instructs identity.
Regular price $16.95Sale price $16.95 Regular price $16.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Here, bullet
Brian Turner,A first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Western practice
Stephen Motika,This debut collection radiates post-WWII California art scene cool as Motika obsesses artfully on the likes of Diebenkorn and Partch.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
The devotion field
Claudia Keelan,This lively fourth collection should excite Keelan's fans and earn her new ones.
Regular price $13.95Sale price $13.95 Regular price $13.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Milk dress
Nicole Cooley,Compelled by rhetoric of disaffect and detachment, Milk Dress uncovers the fatigue of too much wanting.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Forth a raven
Christina Davis,Christina Davis' deeply-felt lyric poems will seduce the reader with their spare elegance.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Pageant
Joanna Fuhrman,Fuhrman charms, letting us in on the joke with a brazenly critical and warmly intelligent voice.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
The case against happiness
Jean-Paul Pecqueur,In this wide-ranging debut, likeable characters in postmodern America argue a case against happiness.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Winter tenor
Kevin Goodan,Tightly wrought lyric exploration of the severities of farm life, where doom and grace are one.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Hagar before the occupation / hagar after the occupation
Amal al-Jubouri, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Husam Qaisi, Alicia Ostriker,Iraqi author Amal al-Jubouri contextualizes America's occupation of Iraq through a Qur'an parable, portraying life before and after the war.
Regular price $17.50Sale price $17.50 Regular price $17.50Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Me and nina
Monica Hand,Experimental, stylistically diverse, and musical, me and Nina reflects an intimate conversation between the author and Nina Simone.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
The art of the lathe
B.H. Fairchild,Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
The next country
Idra Novey,Richly metaphorical debut examines what it means to inhabit a world of "losses that outnumber us."
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
The bitter withy
Donald Revell,Donald Revell's eleventh collection courageously seeks enlightenment and the ethereal, crafting a world where environment informs action.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Granted
Mary Szybist,This superb first collection is the winner of the 2001 Beatrice Hawley Award.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
How to catch a falling knife
Daniel Johnson,Daniel Johnson's debut is a praise song for the Midwestern steel towns sinking into their own history.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
Something went wrong
Please try again
Shelter
Carey Salerno,Heartrending, but absolutely necessary and enlightening, this lyric debut is beautiful in its courage and honesty.
Regular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price / per























































































