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| Fresh Horses |
| Gary Lemons |
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| "Ultimately, these are love poems that unabashedly make us aware that we are evolving not away from but toward one another." |
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Poetry
104 Pages, .................. ISBN: 0-9677021-2-7
Paper: $14.00
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In this attentively crafted first book of poems, Gary Lemons moves the reader through interior landscapes rich with loves and losses, unafraid to make the artist's exhaustive ride between inspiration and action, unable to walk away from history.
Rooted in a lifetime of working with his hands-from building grain elevators with a crew of Lakota Sioux, to re-foresting clearcuts with a cooperative of artists-Lemons's many lives fall together seamlessly in his writing. Evoking the Pacific Northwest to Costa Rica, the Black Hills to Vietnam, Fresh Horses resounds with compassion for both reader and subject, and a spiritual practice-poetry-made from the act of witness.
Lemons demonstrates the confidence of craft gained in over thirty years of writing and publishing. Fresh Horses navigates skillfully between ideology and image in its attentive architecture, allowing language to reconstruct a sense of purposeful wonder in its turns. "All of our heroics, piled beside the stars, / Appear tiny; still, they are ours."
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| Gary Lemons has been an ironworker, carpenter, tree planter, logger, crane operator, fruit picker, documentary videographer, and arts educator. His poems have been widely published in literary journals, including The Paris Review, The Iowa Review, Kayak, and Willow Springs, anthologized in Dalmo'ma, and recorded on the CD Arisen. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington, where he manages PTTV, the community television station. Fresh Horses is his first full-length collection. |
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| Praise for Fresh Horses |
| "These are curiously memorable love poems through which phantoms range...and powerful stark speeches rise from these beings. Gifted poets like Gary Lemons are important because witnessing is what they do." |
—Norman Dubie.......... |
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| "'I walk to the edge of everything I fear,' Gary Lemons writes. I admire his deep engagment with his country's history, and the sophistication of his ear. His gifts are many and welcome." |
—Sam Hamill.......... |
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