{"product_id":"9781882295968","title":"Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Forty years old and flourishing—a remarkable record for a small nonprofit press—Alice James Books deserves praise and admiration.\"—Maxine Kumin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compilation of archival materials accompanies this collection of forty years of Alice James Books poetry. Nearly 150 authors are represented in chronological order. Maxine Kumin states, \"the list of authors is remarkable for its breadth, variety, and passion. The assortment is idiosyncratic, the range of voices and styles embraces the familiar personal narrative voice and the innovative.\" Contributors include Jane Kenyon, Fanny Howe, Forrest Gander, Jean Valentine, B.H. Fairchild, Matthea Harvey, Brian Turner, and Cole Swensen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Marie Macari\u003c\/b\u003e's most recent book \u003ci\u003eShe Heads into the Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2008 by Autumn House Press. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eGloryland\u003c\/i\u003e (Alice James Books, 2005), and \u003ci\u003eIvory Cradle\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the APR\/Honickman First Book Prize in 2000. Macari founded and teaches in the low-residency MFA program in poetry and poetry in translation at Drew University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarey Salerno\u003c\/b\u003e is the executive director of Alice James Books. She earned an MFA in poetry from New England College and teaches in the BFA program at the University of Maine at Farmington. Her first poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eShelter\u003c\/i\u003e, won a 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award and was published in 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer US Poet Laureate \u003cb\u003eMaxine Kumin\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer and Ruth Lilly prizes, is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhere I Live: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems 1990–2010\u003c\/i\u003e (W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company), her seventeenth volume, which won the 2011 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize in Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alice James Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032852938992,"sku":"9781882295968","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781882295968_p0.jpg?v=1763779657","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781882295968","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}