Alphalexia by Barbra Nightingale

$14.99

 

Barbra Nightingale’s Alphalexia is an abecedarian wonder, a primer for living.  Through lyric odes to each letter of our alphabet, Nightingale takes us through philosophical questions, grounding them to the shapes and sounds of our very being, our very breath.  Her poems are reminiscent of brightly colored building blocks, but underneath their glistening surfaces are deep concerns and compassion for we humans as we struggle with language—and everything else.
–Denise Duhamel

 

Barbra Nightingale‘s new book is an island of fun in an over-serious world. It’s a holiday all by itself, a parade complete with floats rolling along under letters wafting down like confetti. If you’re in the mood for alphabetia, whatever you do, don’t miss it!

–Lola Haskins

 

 

 

Category:

Description

Alphalexia 

by Barbra Nightingale

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-138-6

2017

Barbra Nightingale’s poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, such as  Rattle, Narrative Magazine (Poem of the Week), ,Gargoyle, Barrow Street, The Georgetown Review, CRIT Journal, The Apalachee Review, Calyx, Kalliope, Many Mountains Moving, Birmingham Review, Chatahoochee Review, The Comstock Review, Poetrybay.com,  The Mississippi Review.com, The MacGuffin, Crosscurrents, The Kansas Quarterly, Cumberlands Poetry Journal, Passages North, The Florida Review, Coydog Review. and several national anthologies including City of Big Shoulders, The Liberal Media Made Me Do It, Florida in Poetry, Tigertail, and Glass Bottom Sky.

Book Publications include:

Two Voices, One Past, Yellow Jacket Press, 2010

Geometry of Dreams (2009), Word Tech Editions, Ohio,  

The Ex-Files (2009) (online by Goss 183)

Greatest Hits (June, 2000): chapbook, Pudding House Press

Singing in the Key of L (June, 1999) won the 1999 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Award, NFSPS,Inc.

Lunar Equations (1993), East Coast Editions, NY

Prelude to a Woman (1986) Earthwise Publications, Miami

Lovers Never Die (1981), Lieb/Schott Publications, IL

Barbra Nightingale is a professor emeritus from Broward College (Ft. Lauderdale), and Advisor Emeritus from Phi Theta Kappa. She lives, works, and plays in Hollywood, Florida, with her various two and four legged menagerie of family.

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “Alphalexia by Barbra Nightingale”

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *