All Us Beautiful Monsters by Alex Lemon - 9781639551828

Name: All Us Beautiful Monsters by Alex Lemon - 9781639551828
Brand: Milkweed Editions

Milkweed Editions

All Us Beautiful MonstersPoems\nAuthor(s): Alex Lemon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Milkweed Editions, United States\nImprint: Milkweed Editions\nISBN-13: 9781639551828, 978-1639551828\nSynopsis\nA deeply imaginative collection by a beloved poet with the ability to slice straight through nerve and marrow on his way to the heart and mind of the matter (Tracy K. Smith).\n\nHaving extensively detailed his experience with a traumatic brain injury, Alex Lemon writes with the remarkable ability to transform the depth of pain into brilliant light. His enthralling new collection charts a visual map of the sprawling mind, translating images that alight behind the eye. It is a luminous study in contradictions: corporeal bewilderment and overwhelming apathy, the levity of dreams and the acridity of existence, aching grief and radiant joy. In turns evoking an imperative you and a collective we, our omniscient speaker is urgent and complex; hes existential, dissociative, unable to recognize hims.