Poetry. E. Alex Pierce's voice can be heard echoing down the long corridors of memory and myth. It's not that these poems live in the past; instead, they manage to bring it back to life with uncanny sensual details and an urgency that makes you realize some fires never really go out. The book's scope is wide: beautifully crafted family reminiscences; Bach and Beethoven; Raphael and Goltzius; Shakespeare; the Greek Myths and the fate of the Romanovs. VOX HUMANA is all lilt and discipline in its courtliness, its surrender to the theater of the moment at its most alive.

Author City: 9781926829715, NS CAN

E. Alex Pierce lives in East Sable River, Nova Scotia where she is developing a center for writers and artists. Her work has been anthologized in Words Out There: Women Writers in Atlantic Canada (Roseway Publishing Company, 1999), The Best Canadian Poetry (Tightrope Books, 2008), and Undercurrents: New Voices in Canadian Poetry (Cormorant Books, 2011).