Unbound Edition Press today announced that it will publish Cadence of Vanishing, a mixed-genre memoir by Alice Jones. The work is presently scheduled for release in September 2025.
A poet, physician, and psychoanalyst, Jones is the author of seven award-winning collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, ZYZZYVA, Verse, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Colorado Review, New England Review, and Best American Poetry, among other notable literary publications. She has been awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the National Endowment for the Arts, in addition to multiple other literary prizes.
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.
Peter Campion, executive editor at Unbound Edition Press, acquired Jones’ work for the house and is editing it with her. “Readers of Annie Ernaux will appreciate Cadence of Vanishing, even as they discern its incomparable originality,” he said. “Whether in prose or poem, Jones interweaves moments of her own life and history with those she hears at work. Her writing is a remarkable synthesis.”
Patrick Davis, publisher and editor in chief at Unbound Edition Press, said: “We exist to publish inspired, daring writers like Alice Jones. Her work is as absorbing as it is original because of her willingness to live and write at the intersection of gathering and losing, while still finding joy.”
Alice Jones practices psychoanalysis in Berkeley, California and is a personal and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is also an open water swimmer.
