These evocative poems move from the icon of Alice in Wonderland to the imagined figure of Alice out of Wonderland—on a Vancouver beach with the poet, underground with Persephone, in Memphis with Elvis. But first they explore the life of the real Alice Liddell (1852–1934), who sat still for Charles Dodgson's camera and inspired the Alice books that prompted his rise to fame as Lewis Carroll. In this powerful sequence, the emotional life of Alice Liddell as girl and woman is depicted in brilliant narrative juxtapositions. Presented is Alice the creation and Alice the person in a cultural context that, on one level, reexamines cognition and dissociation and on another, liberates the poetic sequence from the monotony of story and closure.
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"Delicate and polisged as an auspicious white stone found on the beach, this collection establishes Stephanie Bolster as a poet of significance." -- The Malahat Review, Winter 1998
White Stone: The Alice Poems is Bolster's first book but no doubt has found an eager audience already, not only among those like myself who were watching out for more "Alice" poems as soon as they began to appear in literary journals but also among a wider general public... Delicate and polished as an auspicious white stone found on the beach, this collection establishes Stephanie Bolster as a poet of significance. -- The Malahat Review, Winter 1998
White Stone: The Alice Poems is Bolster's first book but no doubt has found an eager audience already, not only among those like myself who were watching out for more "Alice" poems as soon as they began to appear in literary journals but also among a wider general public... Delicate and polished as an auspicious white stone found on the beach, this collection establishes Stephanie Bolster as a poet of significance. -- The Malahat Review, Winter 1998
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This review is from: White Stone: The Alice Poems (Signal Editions Poetry Series) (Paperback)
Bolster has approached "Alice" and one cannot help but feel that she has let the reader in on a secret between the girl/woman and the man who immortalized her. The secret, however, is a universal secret, and so, the reader is not left wondering what it all means (just some of it!).Her mastery, then, is that she brings the reader into a secret, private world, and in so doing, brings the reader to him or herself, as well as to the poet -- something not easily accomplished in poetry.
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