Bending into the Light

A beautiful and timely collection of poems written during the pandemic. -The poems in Alice Attie-s new volume, Bending into the Light, are poised on an ever-shifting threshold where words -up and down, side to side- appear as -figures in the distance approaching, each a declaration, each persisting-. Beings, things, ideas, present or vanishing, flow through the vessel of language wherein each exudes -its own aura, its own being, its own disappearance.- Attie-s voice is intricate and intimate, shaping and reshaping the space of being and the space of non-being. These contemplative poems, interspersed with a few haunting photographs and artworks, extol, and mourn, melding the quotidian with the philosophical where we are formed and transformed in the profound knowledge that -the voice has no center.- --