Quotes from Alex Lemon

Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.

I can be black magic Or boring as hell.

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.