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Hallelujah Blackout
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.00
ISBN13: 9781571314314
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Feb 12 2008
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.97 Depth: 8.51
Language: English
Astonishing . . . A pure-gospel shout to the vaulted heavens. --D. A. POWELL
Written in the aftermath of brain trauma, this astonishing collection takes us through a glittering underworld of illness and recovery, on a confrontational, explosive trip that is at once euphoric and brutal. Through the painful process of rehabilitation and the lingering effects of illness, including a gradual loss of vision, Alex Lemon undergoes a forced metamorphosis that shatters the divide between pain and joy. These poems invoke, proclaim, decry, and serenade the world that results after the violation of identity.
From the taste of blood to a glimpse into the opening heavens, the hallucinatory poems of Hallelujah Blackout are an expedition of self made foreign: when the membranes that divide mind and body rupture and the space between them is made, visible, radiant, alien. It is a rapturous reclamation of the body and a mournful ode to what has been lost. Without relying on familiar narratives of despair and pity, this collection serves as a tender hymn to the decay, crimes, and promise of human life.
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