Fancy Beasts: Poems
Feb 2010 · Milkweed Editions
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California wildfires, the 2008 election, plastic surgery, Larry Craig, wildfires, Wal-Mart, and rampant commercialism—in Fancy Beasts, Alex Lemon takes on American media culture, the obscene foil for personal legacies of violence and violation.
The poems of this collection are a workout: vigorous and raw, frenetic and fearless. Yet they are also composed and controlled, pared down and sculpted, with a disarming narrative simplicity and directness. Even when dealing with toxic content—including the turning point in a life of abuse, in which the recovering victim/perpetrator puzzles through the paradigm of son-to-husband-to-father—Lemon's point of view is always genuine and trustworthy.
A frank, funny, and inimitably frenetic vision of post-millennial America, Fancy Beasts is a stunning achievement from Alex Lemon.
California wildfires, the 2008 election, plastic surgery, Larry Craig, wildfires, Wal-Mart, and rampant commercialism—in Fancy Beasts, Alex Lemon takes on American media culture, the obscene foil for personal legacies of violence and violation.
The poems of this collection are a workout: vigorou...
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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.
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.
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