Rosebud Ben-Oni Returns to Alice James Books with "The Last Great Adventure is You."
Rosebud Ben-Oni Returns to Alice James Books with The Last Great Adventure is You.
Alice James Books will publish The Last Great Adventure is You in June 2027.
On Ben-Oni’s newest work, Alice James Executive Director and Publisher Carey Salerno says: “The syntactical work in this collection is so strong, as is the work with the line. The poems are intellectual and expounding, and the lines and images are crisp in appearance without too much adornment. At times, it feels as if the poet leaves the conceptual work—the joyful work of teasing apart and understanding the concepts as presented—to us, the reader. It feels up to us to take from what is presented what we will (like a lecture on theory and its potential applications), and these moments of collaboration and agency are highly enjoyable. There's also gorgeous sound work and word play, especially in the prose poems.
Strong Li-Young Lee vibes in "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark;" it feels very homage-y to "In the City in which I Love You." So beautiful.”
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Rosebud Ben-Oni is the author of several collections, including the forthcoming The Last Great Adventure is You (Alice James Books, 2027) and If This is the Age We End Discovery (2021), which won the Alice James Award and was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her work has been commissioned by Paramount, the National September 11th Memorial, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage. She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Queens Arts Fund, Cafe Royal Foundation, Queens Council on the Arts and CantoMundo. Her work appears in POETRY, APR, The Writer's Chronicle, Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America, The Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Tin House, among others.
