Poetry. "GORGEOUS MORNING is an ingenious book-length prose poem sequence with one-word titles such as 'Attend,' 'Dread,' and 'Glean.' Each poem gathers a constellation of sentences phonetically or thematically suggested by that word. The method is reminiscent of Gertrude Stein's 'recreation of the word' in Tender Buttons, but with a richness of allusion that gives us back the world with restored freshness and attention. Alice Jones reminds us that poetry is a precise means of uncertainty, through which we renew experience without the willful attempt to clarify it. The playfulness and 'give' of the work is a great pleasure."—Paul Hoover

Author City: BERKELEY, CA USA

Alice Jones's books from Alice James Books are THE KNOT, which won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and ISTHMUS, winner of the Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award. EXTREME DIRECTIONS was published by Omnidawn. GORGEOUS MOURNING and PLUNGE were published by Apogee Press. Poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Boston Review and VOLT, and in anthologies including Best American Poetry of 1994; Blood and Bone: Poems by Doctors; Verse and Universe: Poems About Science.

Her awards include fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the National Endowment for the Arts, the First Annual Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize, and the Robert H. Winner and Lyric Poetry Awards from the Poetry Society of America. She practices psychoanalysis in Berkeley and is a supervising and training analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.