Alex Grant's Books
Apr.01.2012
A monk-poet born in the JiangXi province of China in the mid-9th century, Wing Lei was a contemporary of the Chinese poetry masters Li Po, Tu Fu, and Wang Wei. His early life was spent in relative anonymity as a mid-level government official in the province, though it is known that he wrote poetry during this time. When his beloved wife Nagini was drowned in a flood during the...
Oct.01.2010
"Alex Grant enters the lives of his varied personae with ease, their voices drawing us into their dreams. The territory of Grant’s imagination and mind seem endless, his gift for language and the prose poem matchless. These are stunning poems."
—Susan Ludvigson, South Carolina Literary Hall of Fame inductee
"Fate, chance, beauty, chaos –...
Sep.11.2009
"Fear of Moving Water" was a 2010 runner-up for the Brockman Campell Prize(Best North Carolina Poetry Collection) and the Oscar Arnold Young Award(Best Collection by a North Carolina Poet.)
http://www.windpub.com/books/movingwater.htm
"I've always believed that poetry depends on two truths: the probity of
mystery versus obscurity, and the musical...
Feb.09.2009
Eight poems(from my full-length ms., The Circus Poems) which were featured in the latest issue of The Missouri Review.
Apr.14.2008
"Brilliant. Alex Grant has a weird and fascinating mind. In The White Book, he combines a glittering sardonic wit with a punch-drunk fatalistic spirituality to produce poems that "swing...on lengths of radiant silk". - Joanna Catherine Scott.
Sep.28.2006
Chains & Mirrors won the 2006 Randall Jarrell Prize and the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award(Best Collection by a North Carolina Poet.)
"It's easy to see why Alex Grant's chapbook Chains & Mirrors won both the 2006 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Contest and the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award (for best book by a North Carolina poet). Grant's skill as a poet goes...
About Alex
Alex Grant's Chains & Mirrors won the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award(Best North Carolina poetry collection) and the 2006 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize. Fear of Moving Water, his 2009 collection, was runner-up for both the Oscar Arnold Young and the...
Connections
Causes Alex Grant Supports
Southern Poverty Law Center
Amnesty International
Moveon.org
Alex’s Favorite Books
Catcher in the Rye, Journey to Ixtlan, Voyage to Arcturus, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The White Hotel, The Four Quartets, The World Doesn't End...