Alice Templeton
Alice Templeton
Alice Templeton’s poetry collection The Infinite Field was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2024. Her poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Bellingham Review, Calyx, Nimrod, Poetry, and other publications, and her chapbook Archaeology won the 2008 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry from Finishing Line Press. She is also the author of a scholarly book on Adrienne Rich’s feminist poetics and articles on contemporary poetry and literary theory. Originally from Tennessee, Templeton lives in Point Richmond, California.
The Infinite Field
Poems by Alice Templeton
Writing from her “share of solitude,” Alice Templeton calls up beloved places and people from the infinite field of memory: the Memphis suburbs of her childhood, the family farm in middle Tennessee that grounded her in adolescence and adulthood, and the relatives with whom she shared those places. Templeton’s language conjures “the hour creatures draw close,” and within the bounds of these singular poems, time is given shape and substance. The decline of her parents and the destruction of the family home by fire compel her to reinspect the past and fully claim her present life in California. Taken together, these poems tell a loving liberation story as the poet moves on from a way of life spent close to the land.