Books by Alison Pelegrin
Mid/South Sonnets
by C.T. Salazar, Casie Dodd, Brandon Amico, JC Andrews, Susan April, Stacey Balkun, Makalani Bandele, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Andrea Blancas Beltran, Ellie Black, Darrell Bourque, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Justin Carter, Michelle Castleberry, George David Clark, Adam Clay, Christian J Collier, Dorsey Craft, Brody Parrish Craig, Hannah Dow, George Drew, CD Eskilson, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Beth Gordon, Maggie Graber, David Greenspan, Andrew Hemmert, Raye Hendrix, Maggie Rue Hess, Faylita Hicks, Erin Hoover, Randall Horton, SG Huerta, T.R. Hummer, Jules Jacob, Bethany Jarmul, Grant Matthew Jenkins, Edison Jennings, Ashley M Jones, Carol Parris Krauss, T.K. Lee, Steven Leyva, Aurielle Marie, Landon McGee, Benjamin Morris, Caleb Nolen, Mónica Teresa Ortiz, Alison Pelegrin, Samuel Prestridge, Suzanne Underwood Rhodes, C. T. Salazar, Celeste Schueler, Gerry Sloan, Cody Smith, Tom Snarsky, Nathan Spoon, Colin James Sturdevant, Hiba Tahir, Nikki Ummel, Damien Uriah, Clara Bush Vadala, John Vanderslice, Cassandra Whitaker, Jim Whiteside, Marcus Wicker, Matthew Wimberley, Marianne Worthington, Jianqing Zheng
Mid/South Sonnets brings together sixty-six poets with ties throughout the American South. From Oklahoma to Florida-with larger clusters of work from the more centrally located Mid-Southern states, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee-the states represented through these writers offer a wide range of landscapes and perspectives that speak to the region's eclectic nature. While this anthology includes many conventional and experimental approaches to the sonnet form, each poem ultimately enacts an attempt to struggle through the anxieties of home in the hope of finding a place to love and belong.
Featuring:
Rasha Abdulhadi
Brandon Amico
JC Andrews
Susan April
Stacey Balkun
makalani bandele
Anna Lena Phillips Bell
Andrea Blancas Beltran
Ellie Black
Darrell Bourque
Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Justin Carter
Michelle Castleberry
George David Clark
Adam Clay
Christian J. Collier
Dorsey Craft
Brody Parrish Craig
Hannah Dow
George Drew
CD Eskilson
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Beth Gordon
Maggie Graber
David Greenspan
Andrew Hemmert
Raye Hendrix
Maggie Rue Hess
Faylita Hicks
Erin Hoover
Randall Horton
SG Huerta
T. R. Hummer
Jules Jacob
Bethany Jarmul
Grant Matthew Jenkins
Edison Jennings
Ashley M. Jones
Carol Parris Krauss
T. K. Lee
Steven Leyva
Aurielle Marie
Landon McGee
Benjamin Morris
Caleb Nolen
mónica teresa ortiz
Alison Pelegrin
Samuel Prestridge
Suzanne Underwood Rhodes
Celeste Schueler
Gerry Sloan
Cody Smith
Tom Snarsky
Nathan Spoon
colin james sturdevant
Hiba Tahir
Nikki Ummel
Damien Uriah
Clara Bush Vadala
John Vanderslice
Cassandra Whitaker
Jim Whiteside
Marcus Wicker
Matthew Wimberley
Marianne Worthington
Jianqing Zheng
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Waterlines: Poems
In Waterlines, Louisiana native Alison Pelegrin gives us poems that describe the terrible power of nature even as they underscore the state’s beauty. The poet moves from the familiar gaudy delights of life in New Orleans to immerse the reader in the vastly different experience of living north of Lake Pontchartrain. In this fractured world, the Bogue Falaya River becomes a highway paved with benedictions, psalms, and praise for ordinary things, as Pelegrin searches the unfamiliar for an incarnation of home.
Water―the threat of hurricanes and floods, as well as the tangled geographies and histories of the rivers and lakes themselves―sustains the poet as she settles into the casual beauty of “the daily route,” finding spiritual depth and delight in both human and natural wonders.
“It’s said that figures as different as Jefferson and Goethe were comfortable in the world because they were at home at Monticello and Weimar respectively, and the same is true of Alison Pelegrin. Waterlines starts locally and then radiates outward, not geographically so much as emotionally and spiritually. There are poems about faith, poems of wry and even scary self-examination, poems that combine these themes and more. Pelegrin stays close to her roots yet journeys out and back, ranging widely and then coming home to tap strength and sustenance. In the end, Waterlines is a big, big book.”―David Kirby, author of Get Up, Please
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Big Muddy River of Stars (Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback))
In Big Muddy River of Stars, her second full-length collection of poems, Alison Pelegrin continues her celebration of the quirks and characters of south Louisiana, tempered now by the devastations of hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. These sassy poems come on like a carnival parade, with boisterous shout-outs to sleepy rivers and Big Shot soda, crawfish and trailer trash and those git-r-dones who rebuild homes ravaged by hurricane and high water. Presiding over the book is the spirit of Chinese poet Li Po, Pelegrin's prodigal mentor and drinking buddy. Sharing his exultation and taste of recklessness, she wants to write the Li Po way” / wine and the wide world. And she does. With lines that laugh and rage and slur in the piquant tongue of her native Louisiana, Pelegrin knows how to play the blues in a bold and irreverent key.
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Hurricane Party (Akron Series in Poetry)
Hurricane Party is an original and rewarding work, a masterful follow-up to Big Muddy River of Stars, and a livewire, compelling contribution to American poetry. No other poet sounds like Pelegrin, and that's the sure sign of a writer at the top of her game.”Elton Glaser
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