Fancy Beasts
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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 Beastsis a stunning achievement from Alex Lemon.
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- Intro
- ALSO BY ALEX LEMON
- Title Page
- Dedication
- come sweetly
- !
- being here
- all of the made roads
- way out west
- ghost in the latrine
- more wind
- it had only been dead a few hours
- haunt
- the floppy instant
- here comes the mojo
- california hates you
- beautification campaign
- verde vista
- bling ding bling
- pins & needles
- heat
- redux
- i love you big brother
- shall we be merry?
- fantasy island
- tick tick tick
- there's so little to do in a hospital bed
- the new math
- my fallow human beans
- !!
- !!!
- starved
- fancy beasts
- house rulez
- the nice
- come get some
- modern life
- we could boom boom
- erasure
- the big one
- a little bit now
- cittern
- the physics of sawing yourself in half
- please please more napalm
- operation: get down
- dear dysentery
- all aboard
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Acknowledgements
- more books from milkweed editions
- Copyright Page
