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The chapbook. based on months of travel in Spain and Morocco with her late husband Fernando Alonso, touches on the writer’s personal vision as well as the religious and cultural histories and surprises they encounter.

“Do you ever feel a “wow moment” when reading a poet’s work? It might be an idea, poetic lines or a usage of words that say this poet is unique. Nina R. Alonso’s Riot Wake is full with such lines as: “seeing women in black veils/ wrapped like moths at night.” Alonso’s observations of people and places is like walking the Earth with a magnifying glass. Her poetry is intriguing, inspired and insightful. It is a book not soon forgotten.”
—Zvi A. Sesling

Riot Wake is outstanding. The poems are intelligent, lyrical and so precisely observed. The collection as a whole is carefully organized to give us the arc of the story: beauty and repression. Nina Alonso speaks to us personally and frankly out of each one of these perfect poems. These poems will echo in your heart forever. The collection is timely and will be a classic for years to come.

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Unspeakable Things (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017)

“The word “unique” may be used till the devil take it, but here it applies appropriately to Nina Alonso’s “Riot Wake” which portrays an inner journey through sites as disparate as El Camino in Spain and a Harvard Square reduced to rubble by rioters. There’s psychic pain and suffering as these poems ride their course, while in greater measure there’s delight in how they honor the eye and ear, line by line, with masterly performance. This is a goddam good chapbook.”
—Tomas O’Leary

“Nina Alonso is a dancer. And in the case of her poetry there seems to be a slow motion, wandering sensibility to her work. And indeed as she traveled through Morocco and Spain with her late husband her wanderlust brings the reader to the face of intriguing and beautiful imagery. In Tangiers, she sees “women in black veils/ wrapped like moths at night.” She resurrects an acid trip in a fluorescent diner that dances with light and distortion. There is a sense of mystery throughout this collection…of seeing the unseen..the past with all its pain and allure.”
—Doug Holder

BIO:
Nina Rubinstein Alonso’s poetry and stories have appeared in Ploughshares, The New Yorker, U. Mass. Review, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, Nixes Mate, Ibbetson Street, Broadkill Review, Southern Women’s Review, Peacock Journal, Sumac, Wilderness House, The New Boston Review, Pensive Journal, Taj Mahal Review, etc. Her book This Body was published by David Godine Press, her story collection A Dancer’s Notebook and a novel Balancing on One Leg are in the works. She’s the editor of Constellations a Journal of Poetry and Fiction about to publish issue #11. She taught at Boston Ballet for eleven years and continues as director and teacher of Fresh Pond Ballet.
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