On the Overnight Train

New and Selected Poems

Alice Friman

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9780807181836
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• Index: Literature

Winner of Best Poetry Book by the Society of Midland Authors

On the Overnight Train collects a lifetime of thought and writing by Alice Friman, presenting poems of passion and permission, gravity and humor, alongside a great deal of truth telling peppered with the salt of invention. Here even the dead clink glasses and remain as alive and present as ever. Here the old stories abide and the new ones, written at the tail end of a life, face the inevitable with clear-eyed candor, wit, and grace.

As Stephen Corey writes in his introduction, "Friman's poetry is still kicking ass and breaking hearts as she steams toward ninety," and On the Overnight Train captures the world of a distinctive poet whose work is vivid, understandable, and emotionally honest.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION: The Blessed Curse of a Lightning Overload
• NEW POEMS
• FROM Reporting from Corinth (1984)
• FROM Inverted Fire (1997)
• FROM Zoo (1999)
• FROM The Book of the Rotten Daughter (2006)
• FROM Vinculum (2011)
• FROM The View from Saturn (2014)
• FROM Blood Weather (2019)
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS