The Ice House - Softcover

Floyce Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890193623 ISBN 13: 9781890193621

Publisher: Red Dragonfly Press, 2006

Synopsis

In this, his fourth full-length collection, Floyce Alexander ranges a gamut of experience, from the paradoxical 'Pariah' to the apparent leave-taking of the title poem. In between, the origins of a sensibility are found in the dreck of murder, rape, and racism, with infamy providing a way into seeing what at least one portion of an American legacy may amount to. Here he bids farewell to those who embodied joys and sorrows that in all their contradictory richness fulfilled the task the poet Rilke set in confronting "the horror of death" by leaving behind no "unlived lines in our bodies." Here too is work that attempts to respond to the perhaps impossible benchmark incised by the colonial American John Wise in 1772: "If a man any ways doubts, whether what he is going to do to another man be agreable to the law of nature, then let him suppose himself to be in that other mans room."

About this title

About the Author

Floyce Alexander was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, December 31, 1938, the son of a western Arkansas coal miner whose own father was a cotton tenant farmer in eastern Oklahoma. For seven years, during the sixties, Alexander worked full time as an editor & writer at Washington State University, Pullman, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in English. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, & has a Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Since 1989 he has lived with his wife Karenlee in Bemidji, Minnesota.

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Dragonfly Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1890193623
• ISBN 13: 9781890193621
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 97