From the Belly: ROOMS

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By Karren LaLonde Alenier

After objects and food come rooms. What is this love affair we have with Stein and things? Is it because she holds our heads against language? Here is a book of writers fingering words like tender buttons.—E. Ethelbert Miller, author of The Little Book of E

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About Karren LaLonde Alenier

Karren LaLonde Alenier is author of eight poetry collections—including how we hold on (Broadstone Books, 2021)—and editor of From the Belly, Volumes I, II, & III. Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On, her jazz opera with composer Bill Banfield, premiered June 2005 in New York by Encompass New Opera Theatre.

Praise for From the Belly: Rooms

This provocative and surprising final volume of Karren Alenier’s three-part series of contemporary American poets responding to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons offers readers a deep immersion into the classic celebration of Modernism. Through these poetic conversations between 29 American poets and Stein, readers experience Stein’s wild questions, statements, and observations accompanied by a wide range of voices responding to each stanza of “Rooms,” including stellar poems by Sheila Black, Tracy Brimhall, Jeddy Sophronius, Jenna Nesky, Lisa Sewall, Sandy Yannone, and Alenier herself. This collection creates its own 21st century structure comprised of rooms and echoes propelled from Stein’s exploration of order, disorder, and the spaces that separate, become, and inhabit us.—Jan Freeman, author of Blue Structure