{"product_id":"another-last-day-poems-paperback","title":"Another Last Day: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlex Lemon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry Finalist for the 2019 Writers' League of Texas Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of four collections of poems, Alex Lemon has become known for his kinetic voice and sense of the dark absurd. Now this electrifying poet moves in a new direction--with a book-length sequence at once intensely vulnerable and thoroughly of our moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePopulated by visions and ghosts, \u003cem\u003eAnother Last Day\u003c\/em\u003e follows its speaker on a search through a natural landscape turned on its edge, the landscape of today's America. In these poems, the moments of an ordinary day are rendered in raw, nearly hallucinatory detail: Ants drunk on cherry-red hummingbird nectar. An ambulance rushing into the distance. Endless rain. And, stranger: A dog carrying a hand in its mouth. An emergency room filled with moans. A place where reality and dreams merge, where \"the dead refuse to be left \/ underground.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Lemon's speaker invites us \"behind my closed eyes,\" it is into the vision of a speaker so plugged into the livingness of this world that he is tossed to the edge of living itself. And yet, in his poems, this openness is never just painful. \"the world is a terrible place,\" he writes, \"but I want to last forever \/\/ clinging to its teeth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex Lemon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eHappy: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFeverland: A Memoir in Shards\u003c\/i\u003e, and the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eMosquito\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHallelujah Blackout\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFancy Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Wish Book\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2008\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAGNI\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. He has been awarded a Literature Fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and he contributes and reviews frequently for a wide range of media outlets. He lives with his wife and two children in Fort Worth, and teaches at Texas Christian University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 12, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47399311835314,"sku":"9781571314512","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/13a5e168d8f247d6dfc4216407f53b89.webp?v=1778069328","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/another-last-day-poems-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}