by Alison Stone

108 Pages, 6 x 9

Library of Congress Control Number:  2024939401

ISBN:  978-1-63045-107-3

Publication Date:  05/23/2024

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Pulling traditional forms into the 21st century, Alison Stone uses pantoums, ghazals, a jeweled sonnet crown, and other structures to explore the subjects of contemporary life. Love, sex, family, politics, and the pandemic are both confined and liberated into the frameworks in which Stone places them. Claiming and owning these forms allows Stone to bring a rich and layered music to these poems, leaving the reader both moved and transformed.

Recommendations

Notwithstanding their lovely and subtle crafting, these poems…aim for (and smack right into) the solar plexus.

—Cindy Hochman, The Pedestal

The poems…are impossible to look away from. The mind’s eye is drawn to the shapes of these poems and how they shatter and reform within the confines of their structures.

—Jennifer Martelli, The Mom Egg Review

Alison Stone plays with style for her own amusement, stretching those extraordinary poetry muscles simply because she can…Stone softens us up with the tender details and careful suggestions all decorously arranged and then she lowers some sort of heavyweight boom.

—Michael Dennis, Book of the Day

Each poem…releases a living voice from stone.

—Diane Seuss