Pyre

These "feral elegies," spacious, experimental and abstract, spark and inflame language. They splinter, oxygenate. Alsop's kindling: voices, mineral in absence. The poems delve into collaborations invented in life and life beyond. Through metaphor, the collection evocatively sculpts a new metaphysics-thumbed in ash, cinder's smudge, as embers glow from grief's breath. Here, a prophetic moon emerges in cyclical écriture féminine, this series of meditations combust, twine unspoken cords, and pause only in arcs of imagination as remedy.

Maureen Alsop, Ph.D., is the author of Mirror Inside Coffin; Later, Knives & Trees; Mantic, Apparition Wren (also a Spanish edition, Reyezuelo Aparición, translated by Mario Domínguez Parra); and chapbooks including Luminal Equation, the dream and the dream you spoke, 12 Greatest Hits, Nightingale Habit, and Origin of Stone). She is the winner of the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award through the Hawaii Council for the Humanities, Harpur Palate's Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry, and The Bitter Oleander's Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes on several occasions. Poems, book reviews, essays, and visual poetics have appeared in Memorious, The Laurel Review, Blackbird, DIAGRAM, The Kenyoun Review, AGNI, Verse Daily, Rain Taxi, Mantis, Anomaly, Your Impossible Voice, The Continental Review, and Drunken Boat, Tupelo Quarterly, The Journal of Compressed Arts. The Riverside Art Museum and Umbrella Studio have been venues for her work. Translations of La Pasajera /The Passenger by Juana de Ibarbourou (Uruguay, 1892-1979) and poetry of Mario Domínguez Parra have appeared in Box Car Review and Poetry Salzburg Review. She teaches online with the Poetry Barn. She is a Book Review Editor and Associate Poetry Editor at Poemeleion, holds an MFA from Vermont College