Alice Exiting Wonderland
A cautionary tale held together by double-sided tape.
A mad hatter who blames his crimes on mercury in retrograde.
Trains that leave the station but never arrive.
And a warning to keep your head inside of a very large flower pot.
Alice Exiting Wonderland: On Manners, Madness & Other Misguided Advice is a darkly funny chapbook of surreal prose poems that pits a vulnerable, cat-loving Alice against a dark architect who engineers her descent into madness. An absurdist, gothic blend of saccharides and strychnine, with a little pepper thrown in for good measure. As one reader wrote: “Feminist commentary disguised as a dark, Victorian-gothic fairy tale, this collection does something incredibly vital: it gives Alice her fury back.”
Featuring twelve poems, including “The Taxidermy of a Coming of Age,” “The Perils of Too Much Cake,” and “The Be-Riddled Etiquette of Attending Infinite Tea Parties.”
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Excerpts from the collection…
It was strange to see the cautionary tale walk into the room dressed up as a coming of age. The reservations had been cancelled. Invitations torn up and tossed in the trash. Instead, He’d found an old abandoned rabbit hole and threw her in. Her nubile flesh was easy to peel off. The paper-mâché wings proved more difficult.
He’s given her the wrong station, where trains depart but never arrive. So now she will miss the caucus race. On the platform display, an ominous message: “You mustn’t speak French to the mouse.”
She wondered if it hadn’t been the tea party itself that had driven him mad. But she never got the chance to ask. You cannot join a tea party of the insane; they only invite the absurd.
