Alex Lemon

Mosquito

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In the tradition of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Notebooks and works by Lucia Perillo, Linda Gregg, and Jane Kenyon, Mosquito uses a literary format as a way to deal with serious illness and recovery. Lemon underwent brain surgery as a young man, and Mosquito turns that life-changing event into a vibrantly imagistic, poetic autobiography. The book is arranged in four parts. The first part tracks the emotional journey of the speaker during a grave illness, meditating unsentimentally on the grim details of hospitalization and multiple surgeries. Part two expands into the speaker's erotic life, plunging into sexuality as a realm that resonates with… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-9773127-4-0
EAN: 9780977312740
Produktnummer: 2298115
Verlag: Tin House Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 83 S.
Masse: H18.3 cm x B13.4 cm x D0.9 cm 113 g
Gewicht: 113

Über den Autor

Alex LemonContributor residences (city, state or country if outside the US or Canada): Minneapolis, Minnesota Alex Lemon's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines including Tin House, Denver Quarterly, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Pleiades, Post Road, Swink and Washington Square. His translations (with Wang Ping) of a number of contemporary Chinese poets are forthcoming in Tin House, New American Writing and other journals. Among his awards are a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Alex is a frequent contributor to The Bloomsbury Review. Currently, he teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.