The wish book / Alex Lemon.

The wish book / Alex Lemon.

Poems. Selections

First edition.

9781571314505
1571314504
9781571318435

Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions, 2014.

©2014

113 pages ; 22 cm

2014 Poets House Showcase

PS3612.E468 A6 2014

"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, The Wish Book marks a new high in this poet's unstoppable career."-- Provided by publisher.
"Offering unrestrained descriptions of sensory overload and tender meditations on fatherhood and mortality, these poems blur the nebulous line between the personal and the pop-cultural"-- Provided by publisher.

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