Mosquito Poems

by Lemon, Alex

• ISBN13: 9780977312740
• ISBN10: 0977312747
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-19
• Publisher: Tin House Books

Summary

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 Biography

Alex Lemon teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

MRI	p. 4
The best part	p. 6
After	p. 7
Two for my tumor	p. 9
Scaffolding	p. 11
Last body	p. 13
DNA	p. 15
Goodbye song	p. 16
Swallowing the scalpel	p. 17
Love is a very small tsunami	p. 22
Plum	p. 24
Fantastic goes the lost cause	p. 26
The pleasure notebook	p. 27
Juke joint	p. 32
A country mile of soft	p. 33
Happiness	p. 34
Step up	p. 35
Graffiti	p. 36
Desideratum	p. 38
The portrait by mother painted from my mug shot mosquito	p. 40
Other good	p. 42
Slake	p. 44
Fuck you lazy God	p. 45
Mugging	p. 47
Little handcuffs of air	p. 49
Kinematics	p. 50
Rivets	p. 52
Ashtray	p. 53
Silt	p. 54
Having been roused ...	p. 56
The butcher dreams	p. 57
Arpeggio	p. 58
Snow	p. 60
Who finds you	p. 62
Corpus	p. 66
Callnote	p. 67
Fever	p. 68
The first day of spring kind of feeling	p. 70
Look close	p. 71
Cocoon	p. 72
The xylophone is blaze	p. 73
Preface to augury	p. 74
Sophisticated	p. 78
Below the nearer sky	p. 80
Happy fun sex movie	p. 82
Tumult	p. 83
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