The Wish Book
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"To read this book is to meet a man who would climb the sky." -BOB HICOK
In his follow-up to 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 with his exuberance and candor. Whether in unrestrained descriptions of sensory overload or tender meditations on fatherhood and mortality, Lemon blurs the 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. A carnival barker calls. A jellyfish celebrates a shaky adulthood. A sliding door shatters with the passing through of a body. And a heart is "ecstatically / Torn apart like Twizzlers."
Lean and muscular, The Wish Bookis a collection of fireworks and wild emotion, defined by Lemon's distinct brand of poetic edginess.
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- Intro
- Boundless
- One
- I Knew You Before You Were
- After The World Did Not End
- Ghost Rock
- Still Life With Birthday Cake & Dynamite
- Not Here Not Now
- Two
- Pure Missing
- Life & Life Only
- Maybe You'll Be Young & Pretty Forever
- Wake Up Dead Man
- They'll Be Passing Out Lifejackets Soon
- Haruspex
- My Favorite Coup d'état
- Falling Asleep In A Stranger's Bathtub
- Rube Baby Rube
- Pole-Dancing With Ghosts
- And The Wind Sings Boo
- They Know Not What To Do With Their Suffering
- Disneyfication
- The Blowdown
- Marooning
- This Pledge Drive Don't End
- Volant
- 7-7-7
- Not Yet A Word, Climbing Out Of Your Little Cage
- Three
- Real-Live Bleeding
- Four
- The Pleasure Dome
- Your Life Is The Bed I'm Gonna Lie Down In
- Of Love Hot & Enormous
- Shakedown Machine
- Listen Now Pull It Together Focus
- Wearing A Dead Man's Sunglasses To The Zoo
- The Itching Is Chronic
- Show Up Look Good
- Locked & Loaded
- Everybody Has A Skeleton
- Making It Nice
- Trust Me Trust Me Trust
- Ain't No Best In Show
- Lampreys Of Sunlight
- Let Us Get Our Gifting On
- The Trick Bag
- The Wish Book
