Snake: Second Wind (Snake Quartet, 2) - Softcover

Lemons, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597097489 ISBN 13: 9781597097482

Publisher: Red Hen Press, 2016

Synopsis

Snake: Second Wind continues the apocalyptic narrative introduced in its prequel, Snake, where all organic forms are destroyed by the planet Earth in a retributive act of self defense. From these destroyed forms the genderless eternal voice of snake is born. In Second Wind the poems—with choral asides—explore the possibility that life is only an agreed upon illusion, only real within a certain narrow bandwidth in the sense fog is created by a confluence of heat and moisture for an undetermined time until it disappears back to it's constituents. The poems in Second Wind describe and channel the invisible realities infinitely curled around the visible ones—where fictions—invented stories—dreams, the aspirations and histories—the living and the presumed dead—are all present and real forever.

About this title

About the Author

Gary Lemons studied for two years with Donald Justice, Norman Dubie and Marvin Bell in the Undergraduate Poetry Workshop at Iowa City from 1971–1973. He has published three books of poetry―the last of which―Snake (Red Hen Press 2012) is the first book of the Snake Quartet. For decades he fished Alaska, built grain elevators, worked high steel and re-forested the clear cuts of the Pacific Northwest. Currently he and his wife, the artist Nöle Giulini, teach yoga from their studio, Tenderpaws.

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597097489
• ISBN 13: 9781597097482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136