They Sing At Midnight (2003) — Alison Stone

Alison Stone is the author of nine full-length collections, Informed (NYQ Books, 2024), To See What Rises (CW Books, 2023), Zombies at the Disco (Jacar Press, 2020), Caught in the Myth (NYQ Books, 2019), Dazzle (Jacar Press, 2017), Masterplan, a book of collaborative poems with Eric Greinke (Presa Press, 2018), Ordinary Magic, (NYQ Books, 2016), Dangerous Enough (Presa Press 2014), and They Sing at Midnight, which won the 2003 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Award; as well as three chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Barrow Street, Poet Lore, and many other journals and anthologies. She has been awarded Poetry’s Frederick Bock Prize, New York Quarterly’s Madeline Sadin Award, and The Lyric’s Lyric Poetry Prize. She was Writer in Residence at LitSpace St. Pete. She is also a painter and the creator of The Stone Tarot. A licensed psychotherapist, she has private practices in NYC and Nyack.

92 pp perfect bound 5.5" x 8.25" Winner of the first Many Mountains Moving Press book contest, selected by Thom Ward

ISBN: 1-886976-14-7

92 pages

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Reviews

Thom Ward, from the forward

If you’re not careful, Alison Stone will devour you.
Although she announces in one poem that love is a room she enters ‘sideways,’ Stone’s appetite for the physical and spiritual is never selective. It hunts down all things, sacred and profane. The anaphoric poem “My Hunger” finishes ‘Mangy and mateless, /my hunger gobbles chocolate, sunsets, ‘children, prizes, flame. /my hunger is an animal without a proper name.’ ….

The poems in Alison Stone’s They Sing at Midnight risk many “nows.” They image and idea, whisper and howl, implore and grieve. Their versions of the mundane and the mystic engage us, offer shape and texture to the ‘messy bright life we are born for.’ But her poems also deliver the hard fact that ‘decay is in the air,’ and, despite any hard-fought faith, we don’t get out of here alive. As such her poetics serve notice of the metaphysical amid the imminent, how Persephone is always and forever descending and returning, death into life, and life into death. Such wisdom is Stone’s gift to us.”

Hugo Williams

“Stone slips a carving knife under the skin of convention, eviscerating appearances, revealing the savage truth…Kill to get one.”

Verse Wisconsin

“Stone offers lean and sparkling poetry that invites us to join with it – poems that are, in their way, multi-faceted spaces to explore, discovering what we may, and grafting what we bring.”