Holiday Books & Reading From Alabama Writers
It would be impossible to assemble a list of all the incredible books by Alabama writers that deserve your attention, but, in the interest of serving the good at the expense of the perfect, what follows is an incomplete list, a glimpse.
Recipient of the 2014 Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, Harry Moore taught writing and literature for four decades in Alabama community colleges. He lives with his wife, Cassandra, in Decatur, Alabama, and currently serves as an assistant editor of POEM magazine, His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Avocet, Pudding Magazine, Main Street Rag, South Carolina Review, Anglican Theological Review, Xavier Review, and other journals. In his latest chapbook, Beyond Paradise (Main Street Rag, 2020), Moore uses sound as a vehicle into space and life. Jake Berry calls the language and beauty of this book “an unweeded paradise.”
Bruce Berger, the author, finally came home 50 years after the Vietnam war when his memories crystallized into the 34 poems in Fragments. He shipped to Vietnam as an Infantryman in 1970 but was assigned most of the year to the Casualty Branch of the 101st Airborne Division at Camp Eagle, near Phu Bai. As “next-of-kin” editor, he wrote hundreds of sympathy letters to grieving families back home for loss of their soldier, and sometimes helped gather fallen brothers on battle grounds to begin their long journeys home. Writing these poems brought him home. Many of the poems are illustrated with artwork created by members of the Providence Art Club in Rhode Island. All earnings from this book will be donated to the Vietnam Veterans of America.
And a few more books, some of which we’ve featured in the recent past, that make great gifts for friends and family—and, of course, yourself….
And don’t miss the huge selection of other books published by Alabama writers in recent years—everything from poetry to nonfiction to history to short story collections to anthologies…
