Country Songs for Alice

Author: Emma Binder

Publisher: Tupelo Press (2024)

Winner of The Snowbound Chapbook Award.

“In Country Songs for Alice, the author has woven a collection that marries music and love poems. These pieces are ferocious with love, ablaze with it, invoking a world of deserts and horses, rodeos and sunsets, lizards and open roads. 'With no one around / you can be anything: animal, mineral, / cloud pattern, blade.' The same can be said of these poems: whittled with love, transforming from song to stanza to memory across the page. 'If you want to come to my house, I’ll let you in, the chapbook begins.' I’m glad to have been invited.”

— Hala Alyan