Thin Ice - Kavounas, Alice

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Résumé :
Alice Kavounas read English Literature at Vassar. Abandoned Gardens is her third Shearsman publication. Her poems have appeared widely in journals, anthologies and broadcast on BBC. She is co-creator of the poetry-in-place app Words in Air, with Seattle-based developer John Kennedy. Alice has lived on Cornwall's Lizard Peninsula for nearly thirty years, following a life in London and NY, where she was born to Greek parents who left Europe for America. Alice is married to British historian Frederick Taylor....

Biographie:
Alice Kavounas is a poet as well as creator of the new app, Words in Air. Her latest publication, Abandoned Gardens Selected & New Poems, follows Thin Ice and Ornament of Asia, all from Shearsman.Ornament of Asia speaks with disciplined eloquence of familiar territory: the poet's early years in Manhattan, her current home in Cornwall, her father's native Greece. (Natalie Pollard, TLS)Born in Manhattan to Greek parents, Alice read English Literature at Vassar. She lives on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, following an intensely urban life in NY and London, teaches via the Poetry School, London, and is married to British historian Frederick Taylor. Over the years, her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies, including Out of Fashion (selected by Carol Ann Duffy, Faber), Poems and Reading for Funerals(selected by Julia Watson, Penguin), Acumen, New England Review / Bread Loaf Quarterly, London Magazine, LRB, Magma, PN Review, The TLS, as well as broadcast on the BBC and ABC. Her short stories have been published in Granta and London Magazine.Alice is working virtually, from the Lizard, building Words in Air, this unique poetry-in-place app, with Seattle-based developer John Kennedy. Available on the iOS platform,. for both iPhone and iPad, Words in Airmaps a poem's source of inspiration. You can enjoy great poems, contemporary and classic, in the precise place which sparked the poet's inspiration. A world of poetry instantly in the palm of your hand.

Sommaire:
Thin Ice takes the reader on an odyssey of the imagination, with poems whose sources range from a childhood in Maine, to NYC of the Vietnam era, to our paranoid post-9/11 world. There is a measure of relief in the quotidian pleasures of our beleaguered natural environment, whether from a terrace on a Greek island, or the poet's garden in Cornwall. Thin Ice follows Alice Kavounas' earlier collections, Ornament of Asia and The Invited....