White Stone: The Alice Poems

by Stephanie Bolster and Cleo Qian

These evocative poems move from the icon of Alice in Wonderland to the imagined figure of Alice out of Wonderland: on a Vancouver beach with the poet, underground with Persephone, in Memphis with Elvis. But first they explore the life of the real Alice Liddell (1852-1934), who sat still for Charles Dodgson's camera and inspired the Alice books which prompted his rise to fame as Lewis Carroll. The publication of White Stone in 1998 coincides with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550650998
• ISBN13: 9781550650990
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Signal Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Masterful

Bolster has approached "Alice" and one cannot help but feel that she has let the reader in on a secret between the girl/woman and the man who immortalized her. The secret, however, is a universal secret, and so, the reader is not left wondering what it all means (just some of it!).Her mastery, then, is that she brings the reader into a secret, private world, and in so doing, brings the reader to him or herself, as well as to the poet -- something not easily accomplished in poetry.