Jacar Press, 2020

Alison Stone brings us contemporary ghazals that maintain the integrity of the original form while expanding the subject matter to include everything from pets to politics. Often funny, sometimes achingly sad, these poems take advantage of the leaps this forms allows, taking the reader on a high-speed, satisfying journey through both the internal and external worlds.

from Adult Ghazal

We read each other by the light of sex.
Scarves, collars, make-up hide a bite fom sex.

Elvis was only shown from the waist up.
Censors feared his hips would incite sex.