Poems of great passion and tenderness, as close to rapture as a writer can get and still hold on.

E. Alex Pierce's voice can be heard echoing down the long corridors of memory and myth. It's not that these poems live in the past; instead, they manage to bring it back to life with uncanny sensual details and an urgency that makes you realize some fires never really go out. The book's scope is wide: beautifully crafted family reminiscences; Bach and Beethoven; Raphael and Goltzius; Shakespeare; the Greek Myths and the fate of the Romanovs. Vox Humana is all lilt and discipline in its courtliness, its surrender to the theatre of the moment at its most alive.

E. Alex Pierce, author of Vox Humana, lives in East Sable River, Nova Scotia. She conducts manuscript review workshops throughout Canada, and is Senior Editor at Boularderie Island Press. Pierce holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and for ten years taught Creative Writing at Cape Breton University. Her work has been widely anthologized and published in literary journals. Her most recent publications are Aubade: Poetry and Prose from Nova Scotia Writers (Editor) and Salt and Wild: Shelburne County Anthology (Co-editor).

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"Poems serving as an act of claiming or reclaiming the lost past. Vox Humana is an invocation and a lament" - Heather Craig, Telegraph-Journal

"In addition to memories that transcend the personal to become universal, Pierce has assembled a magnificent chorus from the collective consciousness...Pierce's writing is neither sentimental nor solemn, but retrospective and elegiac, lyrical and optimistic about the power of the human voice to communicate." - Margaret Patricia Eaton, Atlantic Books Today