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Author_Gary Lemons
awakening
beautiful
being
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collective mystique
connection
dark humor
darkly comic
deep insights
earth
eerie
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heartbreaking
human relationships
hunger
indigenous
insightful
knowledge
materialistic world
med
meditation
pain
poems
Port Townsend
struggle to perceive
truth
understanding
Washington
Product details
- ISBN 9781597090476
- Weight: 181g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2017
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Gary Lemons’s The Weight of Light breaks down the wall between poet and reader and invites us to meditate with him on all things beautiful and ugly, in a way that makes us proud to be a part of the world. Lemons explores human and nonhuman relationships, dissecting them just enough to give us a glimpse before sealing them back up and tucking them into the pages. He shows us the painful, the heartbreaking, the fearful—but pairs them with the magnificent and the joyful in such a way that we are relieved and elated to have them all. “The hunger in everything wants out,” he tells us, and this collection contains the hunger to truly know the world. “It’s here—and so am I—and so are you” and we are delighted and humbled to be here with him.
Gary Lemons studied for two years at the Undergraduate Poetry Workshop at the University of Iowa with Marvin Bell, Donald Justice, and Norman Dubie. He received the gift of time spent with John Berryman. He studied the craft of poetry, then went out to learn the lessons of poetry. He is the author several books of poetry, among them the Snake Quartet series, and most recently, the poetry coloring book Dia de los Muertos. Currently he and his wife, the artist Nöle Giulini, teach yoga from their studio, Tenderpaws in Port Townsend, WA.
