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Fancy Beasts

By Alex Lemon
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By Alex Lemon
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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 simplicity and directness. Even when dealing with toxic content—includi...

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PoetryAmerican PoetryOther American Poetry21st Century American PoetryAmerican poetry->Male authorsAmerican poetry->21st century