Poetry. "There is nothing 'still' in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, STILL LIFE, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these poems chart the traces left by the shifting overlays of the templates of literature, rock-and-roll, and contemporary culture. As each poem in STILL LIFE attempts to fix a focus upon a scene or subject, the protean natures under view draw the poet into the eddies and complexities of reflection. This is a powerful and moving collection of poems."—David St. John

Author City: HOBOKEN, NJ USA

Alexander Long is a poet, teacher, book reviewer, essayist, and musician. VIGIL, his first book of poems, was released in 2006 from the New Issues Press Poetry Series. Co-editor of A Condition of the Spirit: the Life & Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington UP, 2004), Long is also the author of a memoir, Noise (RockWay Press, 2007), and a chapbook, Six Prose Poems (Brandenburg Press, 2004). His poems, essays, and book reviews have been published in American Writers (Charles Scribner's Sons), Blackbird, QUARTERLY WEST, The Prose Poem: an International Journal, Third Coast, Rivendell, and elsewhere. Currently he is a member of the writing faculty at West Chester University, and writes, plays, and tours with the band Redhead Betty Takeout. In 2011, Long was named the winner of the sixteenth annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize for his collection STILL LIFE (White Pine Press, 2011).

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