Snake

Paperback | 18 October 2012

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In Snake, Snake is the last thing left alive. HeÆs all that remains of our voices. The bodies of all living animals and plants have escaped down the Dreaming Way, leaving behind a residual ego trapped inside Snake: the sole survivor the Earth must destroy to complete the cleanse and start over. All that is gone—all that has been reduced by fire and ice and the other dynamic retributive forces of Earth—lives on in Snake. Snake is the extracted limbic brain removed from the collective consciousness and hunted across an emptied landscape. Snake is the bad-ass reptile holding back the end of time by sticking himself into the spokes of Samsara. Snake is a single narrative sequence, a frontline account of pursuit, avoidance, and even friendship, forged in the heat of struggle.

Industry Reviews

"In Gary Lemons' Snake, his amazing new book of verse, we encounter the future, present age of the Draco-Mother-Naked-of-Last, complete with the revenge of Milton's Satan on the collective purity of planet Earth. Not since the white-face ventriloquism of Berryman's Dream Songs have I seen such challenges made to the questions of what is voice, what is dream--brilliant book!"--Norman Dubie

"Legacy, levity, language, and lineage lean lonesomeness into a slender host, so off Snake goes on his lonely way, polishing grass, amusing children, circling the planet, tail in mouth, ringing hymns, lightin one soul off the burnin end of another, until one illuminated manuscript wets a whistle keen into dreamtime antihero. Snake hisses humans into hard realities, overstepped. Swallows God, smugglin god inside the tubularity, curls into a bugle, blows one note into the emptiness, sings. This is one rambling serpent, lighting darkness with a candle of stars. Lemons brought us a bit of magic from earth's longest revered beast. Reminding us to dream everything into being, dust it off and return to the bellies of immortals to make our cleansing. Entering Snake is admitting a bit of creature exists in all of us. Snake takes it home."
--Allison Hedge Coke

"In this new collection, Gary Lemons--the poet of the creaking fishing boat, the mountains over Kodiak, the 'throats of grasses'--speaks, through the narrative consciousness of Snake, in nothing less than the fractured memories and voices of species slowly going extinct. A mournful dirge for what has been lost, a dreaming song for what could yet remain, Snake is an avian, reptilian, piscine--and, yes, mammalian--howl in an era of fracking, tar-sand extraction, and calamitous climate change. These poems are wise, beautiful, and necessary."--Jordan Hartt

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