In Snake, Snake is the last thing left alive. He s 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.

Author: Gary Lemons
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 09/01/2012
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781597092357


Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 09/04/2012

About the Author

Gary Lemons worked most of his life outdoors with his hands. He's fished Bristol Bay in Alaska, tree planted the clear cuts of the Pacific Northwest, worked high steel as a welder, slip formed concrete, and worked on farms. He spent two years at the University of Iowa in the Undergraduate Poetry Workshop studying with Norman Dubie, Marvin Bell, and Donald Justice. He's published three books of poetry, the first, Fresh Horses, with Van West & Co., and the last two, Bristol Bay and Snake, with Red Hen Press. He now teaches yoga with his life partner, the sculptor Nöle Giulini, in their studio, Tenderpaws, in Port Townsend, Washington.