Studies on Zone

by Alice Glarden Brand

Price 72 pages, $8.95 cloth

ISBN 0-933532-71-7

Worldly, rich, and sympathetic. Moving from observations to conversations to assertions. A master of the nuance of history and its broad sweep through our lives, Alice Brand is at heart a master singer of our communal tales. -- Judith Baumel, former director, Poetry Society of America

Imagine landscapes as varied as the pace. From Australia to Hai Chen to Dubuque. From Aboriginals to women asking for a moment's attention, Alice Brand skips deliciously from an easy pace to a gallop. Imagine a sense of voice until it said of her poems as it's said of the Aboriginals: "They claim sacred sites that planes cannot fly over." -- Diane Glancy

"The Twist of the Place" speaks to us about [Brand's] experience of her Jewish heritage, communicating a sense of estrangement and, as contest judge Roberta Hill Whiteman has said of her poem, a "longing for connections, to understand and be connected to the world...to a heritage that is appreciated, a sense of community kept" that gives poignancy and power to the work of minorities and, to some degree, all women. -- Sing Heavenly Muse!

Alice Glarden Brand is the director of composition and associate professor of English at SUNY College-Brockport. Brand has also taught at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Clarion University and Rutgers University. She has also written poetry collection as it happens, Therapy in Writing, and The Psychology of Writing: The Affective Experience. Her poems, short stories, and essays have appeared widely.