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

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

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

- 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

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

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

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

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

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

- Alex Lemon