Alphabet of Bones is a stunning collection of original poems as timely and important as they are beautiful. These are skillfully-crafted poems that sing themselves off the page in a voice contemplative and insistent and made authentic by her personal experience among indigenous people of Labrador and at home in Vermont with her musician husband, raising sheep on a small farm near the monitor barns in Richmond.That this is an important book will be evident in the poems included here. Alexis gives voice to creatures, land, and waters being threatened by human activities, encouraging her readers to greater awareness and sensitivity to events and circumstances that threaten the very extinction of fragile species.