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Alternates

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Alternates is a sequence of prose poems that uses the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics to imagine some of the different potential life trajectories of the speaker and her beloved.

“In Alternates, Alyse Knorr’s exquisite sequence of prose poems, the poet deploys narrative subtly, obliquely, and allows the present tense to stand as a figment—a precarious now constantly eliding into a past, into a future. In these poems, past, present, and future merge, meld, mutate and we discover how a single story can embody a multiverse, an endless archive of alternates, how a story is never told, but always retold. You are hearing this story for the first time. Somehow you know that this story always breaks your heart.”

--Eric Pankey

Alyse Knorr is the author of Annotated Glass and Alternates . Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Caketrain, RHINO, Puerto Del Sol, The Minnesota Review, and The Southern Poetry Anthology, among others. She received her MFA from George Mason University. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Gazing Grain Press and teaches college English at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Language: English

Pages: 12

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dancing Girl Press

Release: May 06, 2022

Alternates

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Alternates is a sequence of prose poems that uses the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics to imagine some of the different potential life trajectories of the speaker and her beloved.

“In Alternates, Alyse Knorr’s exquisite sequence of prose poems, the poet deploys narrative subtly, obliquely, and allows the present tense to stand as a figment—a precarious now constantly eliding into a past, into a future. In these poems, past, present, and future merge, meld, mutate and we discover how a single story can embody a multiverse, an endless archive of alternates, how a story is never told, but always retold. You are hearing this story for the first time. Somehow you know that this story always breaks your heart.”

--Eric Pankey

Alyse Knorr is the author of Annotated Glass and Alternates . Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Caketrain, RHINO, Puerto Del Sol, The Minnesota Review, and The Southern Poetry Anthology, among others. She received her MFA from George Mason University. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Gazing Grain Press and teaches college English at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Language: English

Pages: 12

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dancing Girl Press

Release: May 06, 2022

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