Alliteration, Again and Again

The genesis of the alliterations in this book was an email exchange in 2001 with a colleague in Albany, New York. In the emails, we traded alliterations back and forth, variously signing our emails “Phrantic in Philadelphia”, “Accommodating in Albany”, “Perplexed in Philadelphia” and finally, “Alliterative in Albany”. This email exchange was ultimately the inspiration for my first alliteration about the city of Albany. I then set myself the challenge of exploring the alliterative possibilit...