Fancy Beasts

by Alex Lemon and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571314431
• ISBN13: 9781571314437
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.5"