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Lee, Michael

 
9781943735600: The Only Worlds We Know (Button Poetry)
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ISBN 10: 1943735603 ISBN 13: 9781943735600
Verlag: Button Poetry, 2019

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Michael Lee's The Only Worlds We Know is a staggering debut that grapples with sobriety and survival. The Only Worlds We Know is a nuanced and tactile look at both addiction, and what comes after. Patient meditations on loss and the land where the people we love live and are also buried. An award winning short film of Michael Lee's poem "Pass On" helped to break stereotypes about poetry and pave the way for thousands of poets to broadcast their work in video as well as in print.“How much liquor can the body hold until the body leaves itself behind?” -- from, Out There The Only Worlds We Know includes poems such as "Just Yesterday", "Out There", and "Remember", that have been watched by millions online. Advance praise for The Only Worlds We Know The Only Worlds We Know is an “act of remembering like sharpening a blade until the blade is gone.” -Terrance Hayes, Author of How to Be Drawn Michael Lee has found new ways to write about some of the crucial subjects—love and love lost, recovery and addiction, the bullet and the pill. -Billy Collins, US Poet Laureate and Author of Sailing Alone Around the Room

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Lee is a Norwegian American writer, youth worker and organizer. He has received grants and scholarships form the Minnesota State Arts Board, the LOFT Literary Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Winner of the Scotti Merrill Award for poetry from the Key West Literary Seminar, his poetry has appeared in Ninth Letter, Hayden's Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Poetry Northwest, Copper Nickel and the Best New Poets Anthology among others.

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“How much liquor can the body hold until the body leaves itself behind?” -- from, Out There“Every adventure is a creative new way to die; I keep on living despite.” -- from, Row“A group of dead friends is called a memory. A grouping of grave robbers, a scalpel. I know of a surgery that removes nothing, rearranges vertebrae into a necklace of names speaking into the dark asking me to join them.” -- from, The Insomniac Maps the Night“I reached so far into the medicine cabinet my hand came back out through my mouth.” -- from, The Pill“What a terrible magic, the day we find out who we really are.” -- from, The Study of Words and Heaven

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Verlag
Button Poetry
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1943735603
ISBN 13 
9781943735600
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
92
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