Books by Lisette Alonso

Lisette Alonso's The Album of Untaken Photos is a series of lyrical daguerrotypes that expose the passing moment's power. With alarming grace, Alonso renders the emotional and psychic constitution of almost-memories, instances half-noticed, socially unpreserved yet personally irrefutable. We see the human beings in Alonso's poetry from without while they, as family members, shape each other mysteriously from within. There is a soundlessness to this language that trembles with what's real and readies us for revelation.