Alex Lemon

The Wish Book

Buch

In his first collection since Fancy Beasts, a book that slice[d] straight through nerve and marrow on its way to the heart and mind of the matter (Tracy K. Smith), Alex Lemon dazzles us again with his exuberance and candor. Whether in unrestrained descriptions of sensory overload or tender meditations on fatherhood and mortality, Lemon blurs that nebulous line between the personal and the pop-cultural. These poems are full of frenetic energy and images pleasantly, strangely colliding: jigsaws and bathtubs and kung-fu and X-rays. It's a distinct brand of edginess that readers of Lemon will once again applaud. A lean and muscular collection, Th… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-57131-450-5
EAN: 9781571314505
Produktnummer: 15188205
Verlag: Milkweed Ed
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 113 S.
Masse: H21.1 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.0 cm 181 g
Gewicht: 181

Über den Autor

Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir (Scribner), the poetry collections Fancy Beasts (Milkweed Editions), Hallelujah Blackout (Milkweed Editions), and Mosquito (Tin House Books). His writing has appeared in Esquire, Best American Poetry 2008, AGNI, BOMB, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Open City, Pleiades and Tin House, among others. He was awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He co-edits LUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation with Ray Gonzalez and frequently writes book reviews. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas and teaches at Texas Christian University.