Alice’s collection, Corona Radiata, is long out of print. This meditation on an embryo’s development in the womb was published originally as part of the St. Thomas Poetry Series — beautifully designed small books printed by Coach House Printing. But it is virtually unavailable now, only rarely showing up in second-hand book sites. So a free pdf is now available on this website. 

The book’s nine sections describe a series of journeys within journeys. Voyages to map a new world; travels through time; searches in the maze; pilgrimages to a known destination; random wanderings; the great migration of species repeated by the individual †…. until the child arrives in the arms of the world.