Bücher von Alexis Rhone Fancher

Triggered: A Pillow Book is a very naughty hybrid chapbook filled with inappropriate poems, flash fiction, and visual art guaranteed to trigger your inner vamp. A three-way between Mojave Desert poet & photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher, Vancouver (BC) artist Kenna Barradell, and NC editor & publisher Clare MacQueen, this collaboration demolishes boundaries and honors the fierce goddess in us all.

For Alexis Rhone Fancher fans, the wait is over. Admit it! You've been lusting after something naughty to liven up your life. Once again, Alexis delivers. BRAZEN showcases her best work since EROTIC, and includes all the "Famous Poet Behaving Badly" poems, together in one volume for the first time.Do it! Give in to your BRAZEN nature...

The latest collection of poems by award-winning author and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher. "Lust, longing, urban noir, and the emotional ravages and physical heat that colliding souls can't help making, are all artfully packed into these lyrical narratives by a poet who refuses to hold back" (Michelle Bitting, poet and author of The Couple Who Fell to Earth). "Mixing heartbreak and hilarity, these poems deliver an emotional wallop with the ease of a woman rolling down her nylons" (Pam Ward, author of Want Some Get Some and Bad Girls Burn Slow). "Alexis Rhone Fancher is not merely a detailed chronicler of our socio-physical interactions-she is by far the most exciting, articulate, and convincing storyteller in contemporary verse" (Gerald Locklin, poet and fiction author of 100+ books). "Any self-styled critic who characterizes Alexis Rhone Fancher's written work as only sexy stanzas would be making an egregious mistake. Far more accurate to portray her poetry as grainy, gritty, noir images by a female version of Henry Miller's bitter observation of the dirty word 'relationships,' or Georges Bataille's eccentric business of the creative woman at times catering to the psycho-sado fantasies of her lover, or Stephen Schneck's nightmare world of sensual dreams, but with an added dose of infectious humor" (Michael C. Ford, music journalist, playwright, Grammy-nominated spoken-word artist, and Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet). "I write about women like me, women who own their sexuality and take responsibility for their choices. It may seem I'm writing about sex, but really, I'm writing about power. Who has it. How to get it. How to wield it. How to keep it" (from "Featured Fem" Alexis Rhone Fancher, interviewed by The Fem literary magazine, 17 June 2016).

Written over an eight-year period, the poems in State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies chronicle the death of Alexis Rhone Fancher's only child, Joshua Dorian Rhone, at the age of 26, and its aftermath of devastation, grief, and reflection. Because she was a divorced parent since her son was three, the bond between mother and child was particularly strong, making Joshua's early death especially wrenching. But Fancher, an award-winning poet known for her frank, image-filled poetry, has created a work of hope, joy, and lasting beauty-which poet Jack Grapes calls "a magnificent testament to the resilience of the human spirit"-where she indeed finds solace and a "state of grace." Poet Cynthia Atkins calls Fancher's collection of elegies "the ultimate tribute to her beloved son." "Fancher's heart is large, refuses to shut down to sorrow and loss, but instead, allows her brave and resilient voice to shine the light, to move us all forward into a state of grace." Two of the poems in the chapbook have been nominated for the 2015 Best of the Net Anthology: "The Competition" (KYSO Flash) and "when her son is dead seven years" (Blotterature). Since 2013, Fancher's work has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and four Best of the Net awards. She is also the author of How I Lost My Virginity to Michael Cohen: and other heart-stab poems (Sybaritic Press, 2014). Her poems have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines, as well as in 25 American and international anthologies, and her photographs have been published worldwide. Fancher is photography editor of Fine Linen, and poetry editor of Cultural Weekly, where she also publishes The Poet's Eye, a monthly photo essay about her ongoing love affair with Los Angeles. She lives in downtown L.A. with her husband and co-creator James Fancher in their eighth-floor loft/studio.