Ornament of Asia - Kavounas, Alice
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In Ornament of Asia, Alice Kavounas engages us with daring personal stories, as well as quotidian moments, expressed in vivid, precise language. Following on from The Invited (Sinclair-Stevenson), with its "brilliant lyrical style" (Alan Brownjohn), Alice Kavounas has deepened and widened her range. She writes from an unusual perspective: a New Yorker whose father escaped from his idyllic birthplace in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire to build a new life in America.

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In Ornament of Asia, Alice Kavounas engages us with daring personal stories, as well as quotidian moments, expressed in vivid, precise language. Following on from The Invited (Sinclair-Stevenson), with its "brilliant lyrical style" (Alan Brownjohn), Alice Kavounas has deepened and widened her range. She writes from an unusual perspective: a New Yorker whose father escaped from his idyllic birthplace in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire to build a new life in America.
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Autorenporträt
Alice Kavounas read English Literature at Vassar. Abandoned Gardens is her third Shearsman publication. Her poems have appeared widely in journals, anthologies and broadcast on BBC. She is co-creator of the poetry-in-place app Words in Air, with Seattle-based developer John Kennedy. Alice has lived on Cornwall's Lizard Peninsula for nearly thirty years, following a life in London and NY, where she was born to Greek parents who left Europe for America. Alice is married to British historian Frederick Taylor.