Poetry. "With PLUNGE, Alice Jones brilliantly and with beautiful tact revives the art of menippean satire. In our disfigured state, she finds somehow surviving vivid emblems of our moral nature and brings them to the fore. En route, she proves willing to dismantle anything—including her own voice and her own distinctive music—that might distract us from the ruined truth of our Republic. These are poems of spiritual renovation—hard-won, hard-edged and, against all odds, tender to a fault."—Donald Revell

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.