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Da de los Muertos

Gary Lemons

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English
Red Hen Press
16 June 2017
Dia de los Muertos is the lynchpin poem of Snake #3: Hunger Sutras, the third installment in Lemons's Snake Quartet, being published as its own chapbook/adult coloring book. The poem is based on Lemons's real, lived experience with a Dia de los Muertos celebration in Oaxaca, Mexico; and though history truly comes alive, there is a sense that the authenticity of such a celebration is a thing of the past. Like the bones of a giant beast dug out of a tar pit then reassembled, it must poorly represent the living creature. Dia de los Muertos intends to illuminate the dark things that scuttle out of graves carrying pieces of the newly buried back to the world to reanimate with new potential.
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Imprint:   Red Hen Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 5mm
Weight:   136g
ISBN:   9781597097345
ISBN 10:   1597097349
Pages:   104
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Gary Lemons studied for two years with Donald Justice, Norman Dubie and Marvin Bell in the Undergraduate Poetry Workshop at Iowa City from 1971–1973. He has published three books of poetry—the last of which—Snake (Red Hen Press 2012) is the first book of the Snake Quartet. For decades he fished Alaska, built grain elevators, worked high steel and re-forested the clear cuts of the Pacific Northwest. Currently he and his wife, the artist Nöle Giulini, teach yoga from their studio, Tenderpaws.

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