Alison Stone, Poet
Book Available for Ordering
*To See What Rises
Release date January 31,
2023
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Other Poetry Books by Alison Stone
ZOMBIES at the Disco (Jacar Press, 2020)
* Caught in the Myth (NYQ Books, 2019)
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Masterplan (co-authored with Eric Greinke, Presa Press, 2018)
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Dazzle (Jacar Press, 2017)
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Ordinary Magic (NYQ Books, 2016)
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Dangerous Enough (Presa Press, 2014)
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Borrowed Logic (chapbook from Dancing Girl Press, 2014)
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From the Fool to the World (Parallel Press, 2012)
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They Sing at
Jacar Press, 2020
Alison Stone brings us contemporary ghazals that maintain the integrity of the
original form while expanding the subject matter to include everything from
pets to politics. Often funny, sometimes achingly sad, these poems
take advantage of the leaps this forms allows, taking the reader on a
high-speed, satisfying journey through both the internal and
external worlds.from Adult Ghazal
We read each
other by the light of sex.
Scarves,
collars, make-up hide a bite fom sex.
Elvis was
only shown from the waist up.
Censors
feared his hips would incite sex.
Caught in the Myth
NYQ Books, 2019
Alison Stone's sixth collection deals with the
myths, both classic and contemporary, that shape our psyches and our world.
From Caligula and Medusa to Gabby Douglas and Ivanka Trump, these speakers
illuminate the timeless struggles for power and love that play a central role
in literature and art. Stone's speakers tell their stories in poems that both
transcend culture and time and illuminate this particular historical moment.
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Presa Press, 2017
Widely published poets Alison
Stone and Eric Greinke wrote these inventive poems together from February, 2014
to April, 2017. Although they each wrote
an equal number of lines in each poem, they used a variety of patterns, ranging
from simple, every-other-line patterns to more complex forms wherein they
alternated beginnings, middles, endings and titles. The tone of these poems is varied too,
ranging from ironic and humorous to philosophical and elegiac, from narrative
to lyric. The voices of Alison and Eric
blend seamlessly into a bold third persona, a gender-neutral and ageless punk
poet who can both whisper and shout.
Dazzle
Jacar Press, 2017
“With
a jeweler’s lapidary skill, Alison Stone has fashioned a string of gemlike poems that indeed (dare I say it?) dazzle—with wisdom, wit, and brio. She’s crafted every line to a high polish, rich in metaphor and music. Wide-ranging in subjects—so much to catch they
eye—this book brims with “the shimmer, the shiver, the quicksilver / flickers. The
sparkle, the dazzle of poetry. Readers,
enjoy!”
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NYQ Books, 2016
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Presa Press 2014
“Stone is not a ‘literary’ poet (there
are enough of them). Her text does not depend on other texts. She is interested
in a woman’s truth, and has something hard won (but won) to give her readers.
This is strong poetry.”
—Allen Grossman
“Gorgeous work – not only accessible,
but tight as can be. I must say that Alison Stone’s book is the first one
I've read cover to cover within the first day of reception. Remarkable
work"
—David Cope
“Stone understands that poems, as
Robert Lowell encouraged, must be events in themselves and not merely records
of events. Whether psychological or philosophical, or advancing the intensity
of raw emotion, Stone’s poems are urgent and dramatic, put themselves and by
extension the reader, at risk."
—Thom Ward
—Verse
Alison reading poems
from Dangerous Enough on YouTube
Pedestal
Magazine review of Dangerous Enough
Self-Interview about
this book at the end of this web page.
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Winner of the 2003
“If you're not careful, Alison Stone will
devour you.
—Hugo
Williams
Yes
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Borrowed Logic
Dancing Girl Press 2014
Pomegrante
About the Poet
Alison
Stone’s poems have appeared in The Paris
Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Poetry International, Chelsea, Barrow Street, and
a variety of other journals and anthologies.
She has been awarded Poetry’s Frederick
Bock Prize and New York Quarterly’s
Madeline Sadin award.
Ms. Stone is also a visual
artist who spent nine years producing oil painting of the 78 images of the
tarot. The Stone Tarot is available in
stores and on the internet. (stonetarot.com). Ms. Stone has exhibited her paintings in a
variety of galleries, museums, and other venues in London, MA, RI, and NY.
She is a psychotherapist in private practice in