Plainspeak

In this startling sequence of poems, readers will experience Alben's unorthodox alter-ego-thinking-out-louder poems with the same exhilaration as they might engage with art or jazz. The poems in Plainspeak deal with place, ancestral ties, solitude, flight, sickness, insomnia and the embattled and baffled absurdities of daily life, playing with formal boundaries, linguistic identity and the lyrical poetic voice.