Mosquito

Lyrical and explosive, this debut book of poetry explores Alex Lemon's experiences as a brain surgery patient. Mosquito blends autobiography and poetry, bearing witness to a young man's journey through serious illness and his emergence into a world where eroticism, hope, and wisdom allow him to see life in a wholly new way. Mosquito is a resilient meditation that is as much Zen as it is explosive, as clinical as it is philosophical and lyrical.

Author: Alex Lemon
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 70
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.22h x 5.28w x 0.34d
ISBN13: 9780977312740
ISBN10: 0977312747
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General

About the Author
Alex Lemon
Contributor residences (city, state or country if outside the US or Canada): Minneapolis, Minnesota
Alex Lemon's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines including Tin House, Denver Quarterly, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Pleiades, Post Road, Swink and Washington Square. His translations (with Wang Ping) of a number of contemporary Chinese poets are forthcoming in Tin House, New American Writing and other journals. Among his awards are a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Alex is a frequent contributor to The Bloomsbury Review. Currently, he teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.