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Days of Our Lives(1st Edition)
by Joan Aleshire
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2019 by Four Way Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-945588-36-5, ISBN: 1-945588-36-5

"Day of Our Lives is equal parts social history and memoir documenting the unraveling of a marriage against the backdrop of the shifting social mores of 1960s and ’70s America. Joan Aleshire’s speaker, a young wife, enters marriage gratefully, even eagerly, believing it to be “a long table / with friends crowding in, red wine / in tumblers.” Motherhood follows, but so do infidelities and reconciliation and ultimately divorce. With each h ..."

Happily
by Joan Aleshire
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2012 by Four Way Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-935536-22-2, ISBN: 1-935536-22-2

"Happily, Joan Aleshire’s fifth book of poems, examines a childhood of privilege and difference in a remarkable Baltimore family during the 1940s and ’50s. The collection offers vivid glimpses of 20th century history as it explores the trials, challenges and joys of relationships within the family and beyond that have influenced the developing consciousness of a particular self in the world."

Litany of Thanks(1st Edition)
by Joan Aleshire
Paperback, 98 Pages, Published 2003 by Four Way Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-884800-45-0, ISBN: 1-884800-45-9

"In this moving book of elegies, the dead mingle with the living. Multiple narratives weave themselves together in these poems, like streams running downhill outside the rooms of human ghosts. Aleshire writes of a loved (lost) one: ‘Do you expect me/ to lead? You turned to me once on the highway,/ hiking from the stranded plane.// I did, I do--I don't know how/ to answer absence, except by this/ attachment to the tangible, or: desire.’"

The Yellow Transparents(1st Edition)
by Joan Aleshire
Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 1997 by Four Way Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-884800-13-9, ISBN: 1-884800-13-0

"Poetry ...Aleshire's reflective turn of mind, her profound engagement with nature, coupled with her gifts of music and insight, mark her as a poet to cherish and applaud. -- Colette Inez"

Cloud Train(1st Edition)
by Joan Aleshire
Hardcover, 58 Pages, Published 1982 by Texas Tech University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-89672-099-2, ISBN: 0-89672-099-3

Cloud Train(1st Edition)
by Joan Aleshire
Paperback, 58 Pages, Published 1982 by Texas Tech University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-89672-098-5, ISBN: 0-89672-098-5

QRL Poetry Bks.
This Far
by Joan Aleshire
Published 1987
ISBN-13: 978-0-614-06421-6, ISBN: 0-614-06421-X

Hammer and Blaze(Updated)
A Gathering of Contemporary American Poets
by Ellen Bryant Voigt, Heather Mchugh, Professor Eleanor Wilner, Alan Williamson, Anne Carson, B. Fairchild, Barbara Greenberg, Betty Adcock, Brigit Kelly, Brooks Haxton, Campbell Mcgrath, Carl Dennis, Carl Phillips, Carol Frost, Chase Twichell, Chris Forhan, Claudia Rankine, Daniel Tobin, David Baker, Dean Young, Debra Allbery, Edward Hirsch, Professor Gregory Orr, Grace Schulman, Dr David Smith Phd, Jean Valentine, Joan Aleshire, John Skoyles, Karen Brennan, Kathleen Peirce, Kenneth Rosen, Larry Levis, Laura Kasischke, Louise Gluck, Lucia Perillo, Lynn Emanuel, Marianne Boruch, Mary Leader, Maura Stanton, Maureen Howe, Michael Collier, Michael Ryan, Pablo Medina, Peter Cooley, Renate Wood, Robert Wrigley, Roger Fanning, Roland Flint, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen Dunn, Steve Orlen, Stuart Dischell, Thomas Lux, Tom Andrews, Tom Sleigh, Reginald Gibbons, Susan Stewart, Tony Hoagland
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2406-7, ISBN: 0-8203-2406-X

""Hammer and Blaze" provides a true cross-section of the best contemporary poets writing in North America today. Editors Ellen Bryant Voigt and Heather McHugh have brought together the work of sixty poets who have taught at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, one of the most respected and influential writing programs of its kind.The stellar group of contributors includes MacArthur fellows Campbell McGrath, Anne Carson, Edward Hirs ..."

Hammer and Blaze(Updated)
A Gathering of Contemporary American Poets
by Heather Mchugh, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Anne Carson, B. Fairchild, Alan Williamson, Barbara Greenberg, Betty Adcock, Brigit Kelly, Brooks Haxton, Campbell Mcgrath, Carl Dennis, Carl Phillips, Carol Frost, Chase Twichell, Chris Forhan, Claudia Rankine, Daniel Tobin, David Baker, Debra Allbery, Edward Hirsch, Dean Young, Grace Schulman, Jean Valentine, Joan Aleshire, John Skoyles, Kathleen Peirce, Larry Levis, Kenneth Rosen, Karen Brennan, Laura Kasischke, Lynn, Louise, Professor Eleanor Wilner, Professor Gregory Orr, Lucia Perillo, Marianne Boruch, Mary Leader, Maura Stanton, Maureen Howe, Michael Collier, Michael Ryan, Pablo Medina, Peter Cooley, Renate Wood, Robert Wrigley, Roger Fanning, Roland Flint, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen Dunn, Steve Orlen, Stuart Dischell, Thomas Lux, Tom Andrews, Tom Sleigh, Dr David Smith Phd, Reginald Gibbons, Susan Stewart, Tony Hoagland, David Smith, Eleanor Wilner, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voight
Paperback, 347 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2416-6, ISBN: 0-8203-2416-7

Belfield
A Novel
by Aleshire, Joan
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2023 by Green Writers Press
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