Alice B. Fogel's new collection explores what happens to boundariespsychological, emotional, physical, formal, even syntacticalwhen people live together for a long time in one house. The house itself has the main point of view, and addresses all its inhabitants as you.Table of ContentsThe Doubtful HouseHouse KeysHouse of AnswersHouse of FlightHouse of TalkThievesHouse of MirrorsThe HousingChargesFootfallsGuestsThe ClosetThe Constant HouseHouse of Bad NewsAnniversariesPlayhouseSummer HouseThe KitchenHouse of ClothingDustMiceThe Riven HouseThe Recurrent HouseHouse of HabitEyesTimeThe Glass HouseWallsHouse of BirdsHouse in the GardenThe Disappearing HouseThe Living RoomThe BedroomHouse CleaningThe BathroomHouse of CardsFurnitureThe Junk DrawerArsonHoardingThe Real HouseHouse WarmingThe PorchHouse of PieHouse of RainHouse of HappinessThe Word for HouseAcknowledgments

A Doubtful House: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Fogel, Alice B.

Poetry

Bauhan Publishing

Elemental: Poems

Zoland Books

I Love This Dark World

Poetry. Rare is the author who attracts the love of two U.S. Poet Laureates but Alice B. Fogel, it's no surprise, did it--and deservedly. Alice B. Fogel's poems have been called "as intense and perfectly rendered as that of Rilke"...she has received an NEA fellowship, lives off the grid, makes recycled clothing, and has come bursting at the seams in this first publication since her lauded books from the late good-eye-for poetry, Zoland (her other books of poetry are Elemental and I Love This Dark World). BE THAT EMPTY is that cup of water before being damned, or it is the water at the edge of damnation (its subtitle, APOLOGIA FOR AIR, being the shout and fist of it). If you can handle "All for show, to win a point for their god/ they put the bomb on the bus for a ride/ each miracle...like leaves and twigs in a real windstorm" then you will be held newborn by "the story/ buoyed upon the tones...an essence/I inhale"; "I stay for every note, rippling, concentric".

Be That Empty: Apologia for Air

Harbor Mountain Press

Poetry. Reference. Criticism. Poet, educator, and Poetry Foundation bestseller Alice B. Fogel has written the perfect book for those who feel uncomfortable with reading poetry. Divided into eight "steps," this "handbook" looks at such topics as shape, words, sound, images, and emotion. Fogel illustrates each step from her own poetry. "Great advice, good humor, excellent examples . . . and not textbooky. Playful and accessible, the continuing point that you don't have to 'get' poems to get them will ease a lot of minds. This is an important and mysterious subject-the reading of poetry. I learned a lot. Painlessly"--Rebecca Rule. The book is an essential resource for individuals, reading groups, teachers--even friends and families of poets who want to feel more comfortable with poetry.

Strange Terrain: A Poetry Handbook for the Reluctant Reader

Hobblebush Books

Winner: 12th New Hampshire Literary Award, Poetry In this series of poems responding to Johann Sebastian Bach’s spectacular “Goldberg Variations,” New Hampshire State Poet Laureate Alice B. Fogel has paid homage to a 274-year-old masterpiece and, with the theme of spirit and embodiment that music—and life itself—evoke, has rendered from it a luminous new interpretation. Bach created the Goldbergs’ 32 sections using nearly all the styles of western European music at the time; Fogel responds in kind with a range of contemporary poetic styles, including narrative, lyric, and experimental, all confined within the 32-line structure she has borrowed from the composer’s 32-bar format. Interval mimics the “baroque” effects of overlapping melodies and harmonies by layering sound, syntax, and sense in multiple voices exploring self, identity, and being. In capturing the essence of this iconic masterpiece, through these poems Fogel has created her own music.

Interval: Poems Based on Bach's "Goldberg Variations"

Schaffner Press

Nothing But reveals the disruptions—welcome or unsettling—to our stream of consciousness that occur when we encounter the unexplainable. In these poems, such suspensions of linear thought become a beckoning toward transcendence, an opening both deeper into, and out beyond, our perceptions in an otherwise prescribed world. 
This is a ground-breaking book that boldly traverses the heretofore ignored gold mine of abstract painting as a source, succeeding as it does in its venture to see beyond an immediately recognizable narrative in which ‘a story could stumble out of here / unrecognizable as a wanderer from a blizzard / snow blind.’ In Nothing But, Fogel leads her reader into vital new ways of ‘seeing’ that translates as it muses, enlightens as it divines. With a parallax vision that combines her knowledgeable, complex ‘eye’ for both craft and aesthetic appeal, Fogel instructs her reader on how to appreciate abstract expression in both visual and emotional ways, to the point where ‘our eyes hurt when we look away.’ I can think of no other book like it. 
—Chard deNiord, former poet laureate of Vermont and author of In My Unknowing 
In this luminous collection, Alice Fogel orchestrates a rich exploration of the nature of abstraction and meets us ‘at the curbed / diversions of the eventful.’ These breathtaking poems seem paintings themselves—and their shades, their layers and scrapings and frames, intensify even as they fragment, recall even as they reinvent. Nothing But speaks to us of immediacy, wakes us and prods us and recreates the mind’s particular journeys. These are mystical portraits of our pains and victories, much-needed remedies as we endure the ‘encoreless rehearsal’ of this life. 
—Jennifer Militello, author of The Pact

Nothing But

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

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