$14.99
In CHILD’S PLAY by Dianne Alvine “the sweet scent of just cut grass fills the air,” and “it’s a perfect day for hanging clothes” as the narrator looks back at days long past. Days filled with loved ones who are “all gone now. / Mother, father, grandparents.” Each poem in this brilliant and moving new collection is entry to the marvelous. Dianne Alvine uncovers the marks left by childhood that we all treasure, but often fail to acknowledge as part of who we ultimately become.
–Leah Huete de Maines, best-selling, award-winning author, editor and actor
CHILD’S PLAY
by Dianne Alvine
$14.99, paper
978-1-63534-454-7
2018
Dianne has her BA in English and Sociology. Her first poem, ‘Books,’ was written when she was seven years old. Her poems have appeared in literary journals, anthologies and in a local high-end magazine, Echoes of LBI. Dianne loves trees, geraniums, blue skies, hot coffee, her rescue dog, Baby, who is her constant companion, and poetry, always poetry.
Lynne Viti –
Dianne Alvine’s debut collection, Child’s Play, in spare, direct lines, embodies the power of love and familial connections between child and parent, child and grandparent. These free verse poems draw the reader into the past imbued with rich memories the poet keeps close. Each poem celebrates the living presence of those beloveds in the heart of the speaker, once a child, now a grown woman. Alvine vividly conjures up grandfather, grandmother, mother, father, and imagines them through the eyes of the child she was, and the woman she became. Readers will find themselves unable to stop reading, until they’ve read the collection to its end, and they will read it again, and again. It’s that good.