A collection of poems that explores transformation, dissolution, and renewal--and how language itself can become a site of regeneration.
About the Author: Alice Attie is an artist and a writer based in New York City.
80 Pages
Poetry, American

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Book Synopsis

A collection of poems that explores transformation, dissolution, and renewal--and how language itself can become a site of regeneration.

The poems in Maybe form a tapestry of voices that slip from visibility to invisibility, illusion to disillusion, the conceivable to the inconceivable. Alice Attie writes of boundaries loosening, of transformations and transfigurations born of the unknown and the uncertain. Her poems suggest that this world will dissolve, and it will reappear as something other, something ineffable yet lodged in language, something fraught with an urgency that is both sublime and unbearable. Attie asks from what vantage point can the seer see, the writer write, the listener hear, learning ultimately that "for the length of my years to lengthen, I place the pebble on my tongue and rearrange the boundaries"?

Review Quotes

"Attie is known primarily as a photographer, so this book of poems and drawings--many of them composed of words--is a departure for her, and quite a successful one."--The Independent "Praise for "These Figures Lining the Hills""

About the Author

Alice Attie is an artist and a writer based in New York City. She is the author of These Figures Lining the Hills and Under the Aleppo Sun.

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 9.25 Inches (H) x 6.21 Inches (W) x .3 Inches (D)

Weight: .37 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 80

Genre: Poetry

Sub-Genre: American

Publisher: Seagull Books

Format: Paperback

Author: Alice Attie

Language: English

Street Date: May 27, 2026

TCIN: 1010204389

UPC: 9781803096506

Item Number (DPCI): 247-34-0832

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Q: What themes are explored in the poetry collection?

AI Shopping Assistant - 16 days ago

A: The collection explores themes of transformation, dissolution, renewal, and the regenerative power of language.
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