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Fancy Beasts

Fancy Beasts

Lemon, Alex

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ISBN10: 1571314431
ISBN13: 9781571314437
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Mar 16 2010
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.46
Language: English

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.

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