eleven40seven Spring 2010 Release Party!

Poetry Reading – Fancy Beasts by Alex Lemon

Fort Worth, TX — March 16, 2010 — Alex Lemon will read from his newest book of poetry, Fancy Beasts (Milkweed Editions, $16.00) beginning at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, April 1 at the TCU Barnes & Noble Bookstore located on the corner of South University Drive and West Berry Street on the Texas Christian University campus.



Synopsis

In Fancy Beasts, the author takes on California, the 2008 election, plastic surgery, Larry Craig, wildfires, Wal-Mart, and rampant commercialism — in short, the modern American media culture, which provides obscene foil for his personal legacies of violence and violation. This pivotal book captures the turning point in a life of abuse, in which the recovering victim/perpetrator puzzles through the paradigm of son-to-husband-to-father. Frenetic, hilarious, and fearless, these poems are a workout — vigorous and raw. Yet they are also composed and controlled, pared down and sculpted, with a disarming narrative simplicity and directness. Even when dealing with toxic content, the point of view is always genuine and trustworthy. This stunning achievement marks Alex Lemon’s best work yet.





Author Biography

Alex Lemon is a poet and memoirist. He is the author of Happy (Scribner), the poetry collections Mosquito (Tin House Books), Hallelujah Blackout (Milkweed Editions), Fancy Beasts (Milkweed Editions) and the chapbook At Last Unfolding Congo (horse less press). His writing has appeared in Esquire, Best American Poetry 2008, Satellite Convulsions, Tin House, The Bloomsbury Review, The Southern Review, AGNI and jubilat, among others. Among his awards are a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He is co-editor of LUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation and is a frequent book reviewer. He teaches at Texas Christian University and lives digitally at www.alexlemon.com.

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Haiku Poem Contest


The TCU Purple Bike Program will be attaching sponsorship signs on the bikes and will also include a different haiku on each sign. The theme of the haiku must be related to bikes, the environment, or sustainability. The winners of the contest will have their haiku and name printed on a bike sponsorship sign. Submit by email one or more haikus to:

Keith Whitworth at k.whitworth@tcu.edu (PBP Program Coordinator)

Deadline: February 12, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.

A haiku contains three lines that do not rhyme. The syllables are traditionally broken up this way: Line One: Five Syllables - Line Two: Seven Syllables - Line Three: Five Syllables. Have fun with this and if you have any questions, please contact Dr. Whitworth by email or 817-257-5941.

Live Green, Ride Purple!

maybe he was on to something

JACK KEROUAC

BELIEF & TECHNIQUE FOR MODERN PROSE
LIST OF ESSENTIALS

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In Praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. Youre a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

As ever,
Jack [Kerouac]

Jack Kerouac "Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" from a 1958 letter to Don Allen, in Heaven & Other Poems, copyright © 1958, 1977, 1983. Grey Fox Press.

http://www.poetspath.com/transmissions/messages/kerouac.html