“I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the hard candy shell that gives to the other, or one is the apparition, the ghost-image that invokes the other.” IfsGivingHardSeeingBalanceGhostSincerityShellsLinkedCandyInvokeApparitionsHard Candy Author:Alex Lemon
“I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to them all of the electric complexity. Each one fails at this, of course, but I keep trying - adoring each of them, loving the process, the ebb and flow of it - and each time, the failures fail a bit better.” ThinkingGivingTryingFailingComplexityElectricVessel Author:Alex Lemon