Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.
I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the h… - Alex Lemon
I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the h…
- Alex Lemon
The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of c… - Alex Lemon
The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of c…
Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility. - Alex Lemon
Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.
The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - … - Alex Lemon
The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - …
I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my trouble with the word. But feroci… - Alex Lemon
I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my trouble with the word. But feroci…
Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life. - Alex Lemon
Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate thi… - Alex Lemon
Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate thi…
My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible o… - Alex Lemon
My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible o…
I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. - Alex Lemon
I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.
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