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Alex Lemon

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born

January 30, 1978

gender

male

place of birth

United States

website

http://www.alexlemon.com

genre

Poetry, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

about this author

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Alex Lemon's poetry collections include Hallelujah Blackout (2008 Milkweed Editions) and Mosquito (Tin House Books 2006). A memoir is also forthcoming from Scribner. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines including AGNI, BOMB, Denver Quarterly Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Pleiades and Tin House. 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 the co-editor of LUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation and is a frequent contributor to The Bloomsbury Review. He teaches in the English Department at TCU in Fort Worth, TX.

books by Alex Lemon

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avg rating: 4.45 | 137 ratings | 3 distinct works

	Mosquito: Poems (A Tin House New Voice) by Alex Lemon (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.49 — 97 ratings — published 2006	my rating:
	Hallelujah Blackout (Paperback) by Alex Lemon (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.27 — 33 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	At Last Unfolding Congo (chapbook) by Alex Lemon (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published 2007	my rating:

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	Alex gave to: Breathturn (Sun & Moon Classics, 74) by Paul Celan	my rating:
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	Alex gave to: New European Poets (Paperback) by Kevin Prufer	my rating:
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September 22, 2007
	Alex gave to: That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity (Hardcover) by James Dawes (Goodreads author!)	my rating:
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	Alex gave to: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (Paperback) by Michael Ondaatje	my rating:
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	Alex gave to: The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews, The Red Notebook (Paperback) by Paul Auster	my rating:
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from Jatana

09/02/2008 07:04AM

Thank you so much for the add! I need to check out some of your work! Author of "In My Prayers with My Legs Wide Open."

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from Ilyn

09/02/2008 02:55AM

Hello Alex,

Thank you for being my friend. Good fortune on your books.

Please visit these groups when you have a chance: “Happy & Brainy Group” and “To the Glory of Man”.

Have a wonderful day. Best regards.

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from Jeremy

01/24/2008 12:02AM

I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me yesterday. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy

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from Jeremy

01/01/2008 02:05PM

Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
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from Jeremy

12/24/2007 12:44AM

Hi Alex!

Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.

-Jeremy :)

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from Jeremy

12/04/2007 01:02PM

Hi Alex!

If you don't mind sharing--I was wondering, what's your favorite novel of all time? Or novels?

Here’s wishing you a fantastic day filled with fabulous friendships, fanciful festivities, and frolicking phantom footstools.

-Jeremy :)

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from Pia

07/23/2007 07:37PM

Hi Alex - The Tin House imprint's great. I've read Michele Matheson's and Mary Otis' books and love them. I'm looking forward to reading your work.

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from El Galan

07/13/2007 11:56AM

Thank you for the add my friend.

-Jose Manuel (AKA Galan)

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