Allison Funk's sixth book of poems, The Visible Woman, was published in 2021 by Parlor Press. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, the Paris Review, Cincinnati Review, Poetry, Beloit Poetry Journal, Image, and elsewhere. She is a Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Other poems by Allison Funk in Verse Daily:
April 18, 2019:   "Murmurations" "Moving as one body...."
August 21 2015:   "In which rooms do we put what we can't stand to remember?" "In his memory palace, Matteo Ricci..."
August 31, 2009:   "The Escape Artist in Winter" "I'm under it again, that foot of ice...."

Books by Allison Funk:

Other poems on the web by Allison Funk:
"On Pruning"
Eigth poems
"Self-Portrait in the Nude"
Two poems
Three poems
"In the Pentlands"

Allison Funk's Website.

About The Visible Woman:

"In The Visible Woman, 'with the care of a surgeon closing a wound,' Allison Funk stitches together the scars of memory, loss, and grief, reclaiming a voice and visibility against a patriarchal erasure of women. In the care of her deft hands and uncompromising vision, I find myself not stunned into silence, but startled into the desire to advocate, to speak."
—Jenny Molberg

"In the beautifully crafted, urgent poems of The Visible Woman, Allison Funk probes the layers of the conflicted self: the artist in relation to her body. Hers 'is a story of how we disappear,' but like the black hole she is drawn to, which emits the 'oldest, longest, lowest note in the universe,' the poet sings herself into sight."
—Cleopatra Mathis

"The exquisite poems in Allison Funk's latest collection address the burdens and blessings of a woman's flesh. In it, her attention moves from a child's discomfort with a plastic Visible Woman to the brave self-exposure of a woman artist painting her own nudity. This is a collection to return to on our own body's journey from the womb to the necessary relinquishing of the visible."
—Marjorie Stelmach

"Like her brilliant mentor and muse Louise Bourgeois— whose 'Cells' series of installations might almost be a palimpsest for The Visible Woman— Allison Funk brings to each poem/cell a superlative physical awareness; but whatever she writes also brims, as for Bourgeois, with psychic content that, however subtly presented, is more than merely arresting. Funk operates on an existential knife-edge, and, the reader is privileged to behold '...the writer/ nearly done for, creating a likeness/ to embody herself.'"
—Sydney Lea