Description
Cadence of Vanishing, Alice Jones
$28.00
ISBN: 9798991957557
Fine Softcover; 400 pages; 6″x9″
Publication Date: Fall 2025
Summary
Cadence of Vanishing makes a vibrant and surprising shape of a life, navigating the depths while facing the inevitability of loss. Following an epigraph from C. D. Wright, “elation washed over our absence toward / everything in the increasing darkness,” the brief pieces comprising the memoir echo the form of process notes, journal entries, and psychoanalytic case reports. Created out of bits of narrative, newspaper clippings, analytic quotations, states of being of self and others, moments of birth and death, the fabric of her text enlarges as it reveals the pleasures of insight and growth within the vanishing that time brings. Readers of Annie Ernaux will appreciate Cadence of Vanishing, even as they discern its incomparable originality. Whether in prose or poem, Jones interweaves moments of her own life and history with those she hears at work.
Author
Alice Jones — a poet, physician, psychoanalyst and open water swimmer — is the author of eight collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Verse, and Best American Poetry. She has been awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the NEA, and other literary prizes.
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