I Walk One Way Then I Walk The Other

$19.95

With a brilliantly alive and witty voice, I Walk One Way Then I Walk The Other is the debut poetry collection from New York–based poet Emily Alexander.

In I Walk One Way Then I Walk The Other, a young woman navigates what it means to maintain a self among the noise of contemporary life, patriarchy, and interpersonal relationships. This singular collection follows a single speaker as she navigates new adulthood backdropped by various public and private landscapes, from rural Idaho to New York City, from subway trains to kitchens.

Conversational and humorous, these poems cast a wary gaze on the political calamities of the present day while remaining grounded in the speaker’s own embodied experience of daily life. The speaker is both loyal to and overwhelmed by her own selfhood, thus evoking a sense of distance, both from the self and from others as she questions “if anything I say is true.” It is only by describing the unstable, contradictory nature of her own self that she can embrace malleability without risking self-abandonment.

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ISBN: 979-8-950172-01-4
On Sale: June 8 2027

With a brilliantly alive and witty voice, I Walk One Way Then I Walk The Other is the debut poetry collection from New York–based poet Emily Alexander.

In I Walk One Way Then I Walk The Other, a young woman navigates what it means to maintain a self among the noise of contemporary life, patriarchy, and interpersonal relationships. This singular collection follows a single speaker as she navigates new adulthood backdropped by various public and private landscapes, from rural Idaho to New York City, from subway trains to kitchens.

Conversational and humorous, these poems cast a wary gaze on the political calamities of the present day while remaining grounded in the speaker’s own embodied experience of daily life. The speaker is both loyal to and overwhelmed by her own selfhood, thus evoking a sense of distance, both from the self and from others as she questions “if anything I say is true.” It is only by describing the unstable, contradictory nature of her own self that she can embrace malleability without risking self-abandonment.

PAPERBACK • $19.95
ISBN: 979-8-950172-01-4
On Sale: June 8 2027

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Emily Alexander is from Idaho. She has a BA in English from the University of Idaho and an MFA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College of California, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of MARY Journal. In 2016, she was the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize for her poem, “Night, Night.” Her poetry has been published widely in journals such as Narrative, Conduit, Basket Magazine, and Penn Review, among others, and she was featured in the 2023 Best New Poets anthology. She has written literary and art criticism for outlets such as Cleveland Review of Books, Zona Motel, and Exhibits in NY, and her essays have been published in Write or Die and Vol. 1 Brooklyn.