{"product_id":"the-wish-book-9781571314505","title":"The Wish Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"To read this book is to meet a man who would climb the sky.\" --BOB HICOK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his follow-up to \u003cem\u003eFancy Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e, a book that \"slice[d] straight through nerve and marrow on its way to the heart and mind of the matter\" (Tracy K. Smith), Alex Lemon dazzles with his exuberance and candor. Whether in unrestrained descriptions of sensory overload or tender meditations on fatherhood and mortality, Lemon blurs the nebulous line between the personal and the pop-cultural. These poems are full of frenetic energy and images pleasantly, strangely colliding: jigsaws and bathtubs and kung-fu and X-rays. A carnival barker calls. A jellyfish celebrates a shaky adulthood. A sliding door shatters with the passing through of a body. And a heart is \"ecstatically \/ Torn apart like Twizzlers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLean and muscular, \u003cem\u003eThe Wish Book \u003c\/em\u003eis a collection of fireworks and wild emotion, defined by Lemon's distinct brand of poetic edginess.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex Lemon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.4lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571314505","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713727991945,"sku":"9781571314505","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_0eedcded-e141-426c-bebe-6d204c7af5c6.jpg?v=1719620725","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-wish-book-9781571314505","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}