All Us Beautiful Monsters Poems by Alex Lemon (Paperback Book)

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A deeply imaginative collection by a beloved poet with the \u201Cability to slice straight through nerve and marrow on his way to the heart and mind of the matter\u201D (Tracy K. Smith).\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; he\u2019s existential, dissociative, unable to recognize\n\nAll Us Beautiful Monsters\nPoems\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the ;