{"product_id":"the-wish-book-9781571314505","title":"The Wish Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"To read this book is to meet a man who would climb the sky.\" --BOB HICOK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his follow-up to \u003cem\u003eFancy Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e, a book that \"slice[d] straight through nerve and marrow on its way to the heart and mind of the matter\" (Tracy K. Smith), Alex Lemon dazzles with his exuberance and candor. Whether in unrestrained descriptions of sensory overload or tender meditations on fatherhood and mortality, Lemon blurs the nebulous line between the personal and the pop-cultural. These poems are full of frenetic energy and images pleasantly, strangely colliding: jigsaws and bathtubs and kung-fu and X-rays. A carnival barker calls. A jellyfish celebrates a shaky adulthood. A sliding door shatters with the passing through of a body. And a heart is \"ecstatically \/ Torn apart like Twizzlers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLean and muscular, \u003cem\u003eThe Wish Book \u003c\/em\u003eis a collection of fireworks and wild emotion, defined by Lemon's distinct brand of poetic edginess.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-3802903\"\u003eAlex Lemon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571314505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571314504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE023050\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Family\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex Lemon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eHappy: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e (Scribner), the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eFancy Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e (Milkweed Editions), \u003ci\u003eHallelujah Blackout\u003c\/i\u003e (Milkweed Editions), and \u003ci\u003eMosquito\u003c\/i\u003e (Tin House Books). His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eEsquire, Best American Poetry 2008, AGNI, BOMB, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Open City, Pleiades \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. He was awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He co-edits \u003ci\u003eLUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation\u003c\/i\u003e with Ray Gonzalez and frequently writes book reviews. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas and teaches at Texas Christian University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44695819288813,"sku":"9781571314505","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_ff2ff419-fa05-47e7-867d-d1b45ee4f575.jpg?v=1703790106","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-wish-book-9781571314505","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}