Isthmus
Alice Jones
1999 Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award
"Alice Jones' Isthmus , a booklength love poem, explores the space where improbables meet, the arc of possibility for two lovers who have come together from opposite sides of the pacific."
Author photo by Sara Hartley
—Kinereth Gensler and Janet Kaplen
about the author
Alice Jones's books from Alice James Books are The Knot which won the Beatrice Hawley Award in 1992 and Isthmus, winner of the Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award in 2000. Anatomy, a letterpress chapbook, was published by Bullnettle Press in 1997. Extreme Directions (The fifty four moves of Tai Chi Sword) was published by Omnidawn Press in 2002. Jones has been awarded fellowships by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the National Endowment for the Arts. Gorgeous Mourning won the 2001 Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America and was published by Apogee Press in February, 2004. Poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Volt, Colorado Review, Poetry, The Harvard Review, Denver Quarterly, and Best American Poetry of 1994. She is a co-editor of Apogee Press and a psychoanalyst on the faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute.
