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Red Lemons is a moving debut collection about drug addiction and loss told through both a narrative and surreal lens, swaying from logic to absurdity, grimness to beauty. In these poems there is a "war with self" tethered to both the narrative and lyric, often playing with scope and leaps that fall between the threshold of order and chaos-a style of gentle reserve and wild transparency-Red Lemons is poised with brutal imagination, where nightmares "wait beyond the night / in a pitch we cannot hear, / like a still pond and all its eaten."

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Publié par	University of Akron Press
Date de parution	21 mars 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781629222110
Langue	English

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Red Lemons is a gorgeous, lyrical, and painful book of poems. This collection deals with the difficult subject matter of addiction, but there’s so much beauty in the language that in some moments, I was so caught up in the unusual phrasings and imagery, that I forgot where I was or what I was reading about. This is the best gift of poetry—to be transported by language that allows the reader to see something in a new way, to be lifted and alight. In this book, “teeth are daffodils,” death drags “his briefcase,” an evening “cuts like childhood,” there’s a yearning in the speaker to “be simple like copper pipes,” and I could go on and on but I don’t want to spoil the surprise of this stunning and spare collection for the reader. Ultimately, this is a book that stands right on the edge of cruelty and beauty, facing a newfound world with the memory of addiction and pain shearing across the sky.
—Victoria Chang, 2019 Akron Poetry Prize judge
AKRON SERIES IN POETRY
Mary Biddinger, Editor

Sean Shearer, Red Lemons Annah Browning, Witch Doctrine Emily Corwin, Sensorium Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, A Brief History of Fruit Joshua Harmon, The Soft Path Oliver de la Paz, The Boy in the Labyrinth Krystal Languell, Quite Apart Brittany Cavallaro, Unhistorical Tyler Mills, Hawk Parable Caryl Pagel, Twice Told Emily Rosko, Weather Inventions Emilia Phillips, Empty Clip Anne Barngrover, Brazen Creature Matthew Guenette, Vasectomania Sandra Simonds, Further Problems with Pleasure Leslie Harrison, The Book of Endings
Emilia Phillips, Groundspeed Philip Metres, Pictures at an Exhibition: A Petersburg Album Jennifer Moore, The Veronica Maneuver Brittany Cavallaro, Girl-King Oliver de la Paz, Post Subject: A Fable John Repp, Fat Jersey Blues Emilia Phillips, Signaletics Seth Abramson, Thievery Steve Kistulentz, Little Black Daydream Jason Bredle, Carnival Emily Rosko, Prop Rockery Alison Pelegrin, Hurricane Party Matthew Guenette, American Busboy Joshua Harmon, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie
Titles published since 2011. For a complete listing of titles published in the series, go to www.uakron.edu/uapress/poetry .
RED LEMONS
poems
Sean Shearer
Copyright © 2021 by The University of Akron Press All rights reserved • First Edition 2021 • Manufactured in the United States of America. All inquiries and permission requests should be addressed to the publisher, The University of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio 44325-1703.
ISBN : 978-1-629221-95-3 (paper) ISBN : 978-1-629222-10-3 (ePDF) ISBN : 978-1-629222-11-0 (ePub)
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Cover image: Dip by Brendan Monroe. Used with permission. Cover design by Amy Freels.
Red Lemons was designed and typeset in Fournier by Amy Freels and printed on sixty-pound natural and bound by Bookmasters of Ashland, Ohio.

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for my parents
The more the blossoms the more you suffer.
— FRANK STANFORD
CONTENTS
Rewinding an Overdose on a Projector
1
Wrestling Season
Conor Oberst
Circulation
Abracadabra
Track Marks
High Place Phenomenon
Syringe Left in a Hot Car
2