Books by Alice Kavounas

Abandoned Gardens is a powerful and essential distillation from this poet's three collections, plus a substantial volume of new work. Locales range from the poet's native America, to her family roots in Greece, and to the UK. Letting go of places and people is a key theme.

Thin Ice takes the reader on an odyssey of the imagination, with poems whose sources range from a childhood in Maine, to NYC of the Vietnam era, to our paranoid post-9/11 world. There is a measure of relief in the quotidian pleasures of our beleaguered natural environment, whether from a terrace on a Greek island, or the poet's garden in Cornwall.

Features daring personal stories and quotidian moments. This title refers to Smyrna, the author's father's city. It takes us on an intimate, international journey which crosses continents, evokes physical as well as psychological landscapes, and confronts such issues as: forced migration, the immigrant experience, and the elusive idea of 'home'.