Description
The poetry of Floyce Alexander has a great dark undertow one associates with the work of Lorca, Vallejo, and Pablo Neruda. It is erotic, politically charged, humane, sometimes angry, often tender and always seeming to come from deep in the earth, or deep in the history of the human struggle to love in the face of the brutality of systems, the ignorance of mobs, the fragility of the body, and the ordinary luck of the draw. This volume, bringing together work from his eight previous collections, makes clear, at last, the scope of Alexander’s concerns and magnitude of his talent and importance.
Recognition
“American Fires is a great and powerful book. Nothing since Thomas McGrath’s Letters to an Imaginary Friend can touch it for its global vision, its empathetic humanity, and the wise fury of its sustained cry for justice.”–Bill Tremblay, reviewing a previous edition or volume
“The private and the public blend fearlessly in Floyce Alexander’s Memory of the Future. . . In his elegiac, darkly sensuous textures, Alexander sometimes recalls Kenneth Rexroth. His lines have a seriousness and weight missing from much current poetry. The ominous ‘Cuban Missile Crisis’ is one of the strongest American poems I’ve seen connecting politics and the working life.”–Thomas R. Smith, Minneapolis Star Tribune, reviewing a previous edition or volume
