In Building Alexandria , a premier full-length poetry collection from Clarissa Adkins , texture meets metaphor in an array of voices, from retrospective to vulnerable philosopher.
Word play and multi-layered reflections surprise the reader, and despite the variety of poems from one to the next, develop the nuance of the book\'s title..
At times the narrator appears a close-up observer and at others, a distant seeker.
Clarissa warps American ideals and idiosyncrasies, reshaping them through surreal shifts in perspective.
In Building Alexandria , a premier full-length poetry collection from Clarissa Adkins , texture meets metaphor in an array of voices, from retrospective to vulnerable philosopher