Alex Lemon

Fancy Beasts

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In Fancy Beasts, the author of Hallelujah Blackout and Mosquito takes on California, the 2008 election, plastic surgery, Larry Craig, wildfires, Wal-Mart, and rampant commercialism - in short, the modern American media culture, which provides obscene foil for his personal legacies of violence and violation. This pivotal book captures the turning point in a life of abuse, in which the recovering victim/perpetrator puzzles through the paradigm of son-to-husband-to-father. Frenetic, hilarious, and fearless, these poems are a workout - vigorous and raw. Yet they are also composed and controlled, pared down and sculpted, with a disarming narrative… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-57131-806-0
EAN: 9781571318060
Produktnummer: 21821212
Verlag: Milkweed Editions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 96 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 315 KB

Über den Autor

Alex Lemon is the author of the memoir Happy (Scribner, 2009) and of the poetry collections Hallelujah Blackout (Milkweed Editions, 2008) and Mosquito, (Tin House, 2006). He teaches at Texas Christian University and lives in Fort Worth, Texas.