64 Blue Letters: A living high school yearbook from 1964

By Constance Alexander

Praise for Constance Alexander's poems:Keen and cutting. These are stones that Constance Alexander insists on turning over and looking beneath, picking up and juggling. Approach with caution - some stones she polishes for display, others she hurls at you. -- Tony BrusateThe voice in Constance Alexander's poems, electric, alive, whimsical, ironic, is one we won't easily forget. She seems to have drawn on the tradition of wild metaphor established by Anne Sexton and the understated humor of Bill Collins to create a poetry that is all her own. -- Maria Mazziotti GillanThe poems lift off the ground - they snatch onto a metaphor or image, a memory that is so succinct and concrete, driven by the poem's force which is a kind of blind faith that the heart needs to have to thoroughly live. In a deep and funny and sad and lovely way, these poems work! -- Jimmy Santiago BacaConstance Alexander is an unflinching observer of her historical moment. Her poems are tart, satirical, tender, passionate, always precisely rendered with both the broad insight and the telling particular. -- Dana RoeserAlexander's sassy, smart poems are educated by loss, but they are moved by desire, rebellion, and the strength of love. -- Camille NortonReaders who graduated from high school in 1964 -- or any other year -- will delight in these beautifully crafted poems. Constance Alexander's succinct persona poems deftly capture the essence of what it is to be a high school senior. The insecurities, longings, bravado, sorrows, joys, and camaraderie are all revealed. -- Nancy Gall-Clayton

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692275576
• ISBN13: 9780692275573
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Old Seventy Creek Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"