In Your Car

Alexandra Aureden

Published in the Spring 2023 Collection.

“Alexandra Aureden's poems are a night drive through your hometown that last week of summer — aching and tender, they blaze with quiet reverence for the landscapes that shape us despite our stubborn resistance. In these pages, she leaves little unremembered, and even less unobserved, offering up delicate stories like your best friend laid beside you on her bedroom floor. Her voice is infatuating, her attention to detail a stunning testament to the intimacies that comprise our lives. This collection is at once an ode to girlhood and an elegy for girlhood — proof that its lessons will hold and haunt you long after you claim you're all grown up."

Virginia Kane, If Organic Deodorant Was Made for Dancing
"Alexandra Aureden's work is as fresh as a sudden rain on a sticky summer night. This collection is made of the very stuff of poetry: love, death, and the passing of the seasons, but Aureden reminds us how life's crucial moments occur not on the mainstage but the in-between spaces, the front seat, the convenience store parking lot, in bed in the dark before you're asleep. When you least expect it, the impossible will have you resting your 'wrists under cold water.' In Aureden's music, minor keys are the power chords."

Andrew Grace, Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College

The Tomato Woman | Spring 2023