Alice Pettway's poëzie duikt in de complexiteit van menselijke verbindingen en het innerlijke leven van haar personages. Haar verzen staan bekend om hun urgentie en krachtige beeldspraak, die lezers naar diepe emotionele landschappen trekt. Pettway verkent thema's als isolement, verlangen en de zoektocht naar betekenis in de hedendaagse wereld. Haar stijl is zowel intiem als universeel, wat haar vestigt als een belangrijke stem in de huidige poëzie.
Most experiences lie in the long miles between life’s stations, but we look toward the next town’s lights for reassurance that we will eventually arrive. When those lamps dim, or are passed by in the night, we become disoriented, caught in the blur of a passing landscape. The poems in Station Lights embrace this chaos, seeking understanding in the midst of the unfamiliar.
No matter how far life draws us from home, the tug of the familiar is always there, turning our eyes and our steps. In Moth-Alice Pettway's second collection of poetry-the light of family and tradition is so bright it sometimes singes. These poems cast the lure of the unknown against the certainty of return, an emotionally tenuous landscape captured in Pettway's spare language. Book jacket.
Poems exploring the emotional droughts and harvests that punctuate daily life. From a market in Mozambique to the cracked clay of Texas, these poems follow the human threads that cross continents and tie cultures together. Alice Pettway's work has appeared in over 30 journals, including The Bitter Oleander, The Connecticut Review, Folio, Keyhole, and WomenArts Quarterly. She currently lives in Bogot , Colombia.