The Only Worlds We Know
Michael Lee
(Author)
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Description
Michael Lee's The Only Worlds We Know is a staggering debut that grapples with sobriety and survival.
The Only Worlds We Know Lee paints a nuanced and tactile portrait of addiction, and an unflinching look at the life that is built in recovery.
Having suffered unspeakable grief, these poems are patient meditations on loss and the land where the people we love have not only lived, but are also buried.
The Only World We Know is constantly looking for the "words that carry us into the dark and then beyond it." Lee's work carries readers, beyond personal demons, beyond life, death, and grief, tenderly, patiently pulling us through The Only Worlds We Know.
An award winning short film of Michael Lee's poem "Pass On" helped to break stereotypes about poetry and pave the way for thousands of poets to broadcast their work in video as well as in print.
"How much liquor can the body hold until the body leaves itself behind?" -- from, Out There
Advance praise for The Only Worlds We Know
The Only Worlds We Know is an "act of remembering like sharpening a blade until the blade is gone."
-Terrance Hayes, Author of How to Be Drawn
Michael Lee has found new ways to write about some of the crucial subjects--love and love lost, recovery and addiction, the bullet and the pill.
-Billy Collins, US Poet Laureate and Author of Sailing Alone Around the Room
The Only Worlds We Know Lee paints a nuanced and tactile portrait of addiction, and an unflinching look at the life that is built in recovery.
Having suffered unspeakable grief, these poems are patient meditations on loss and the land where the people we love have not only lived, but are also buried.
The Only World We Know is constantly looking for the "words that carry us into the dark and then beyond it." Lee's work carries readers, beyond personal demons, beyond life, death, and grief, tenderly, patiently pulling us through The Only Worlds We Know.
An award winning short film of Michael Lee's poem "Pass On" helped to break stereotypes about poetry and pave the way for thousands of poets to broadcast their work in video as well as in print.
"How much liquor can the body hold until the body leaves itself behind?" -- from, Out There
Advance praise for The Only Worlds We Know
The Only Worlds We Know is an "act of remembering like sharpening a blade until the blade is gone."
-Terrance Hayes, Author of How to Be Drawn
Michael Lee has found new ways to write about some of the crucial subjects--love and love lost, recovery and addiction, the bullet and the pill.
-Billy Collins, US Poet Laureate and Author of Sailing Alone Around the Room
Product Details
| Publisher | Button Poetry |
| Publish Date | August 13, 2019 |
| Pages | 112 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781943735600 |
| Dimensions | 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.4 inches | 0.3 pounds |
About the Author
Michael Lee is a Norwegian American writer, youth worker and organizer. He has received grants and scholarships form the Minnesota State Arts Board, the LOFT Literary Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Winner of the Scotti Merrill Award for poetry from the Key West Literary Seminar, his poetry has appeared in Ninth Letter, Hayden's Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Poetry Northwest, Copper Nickel and the Best New Poets Anthology among others.
Reviews
Michael Lee has found new ways to write about some of the crucial subjects--love and love lost, recovery and addiction, the bullet and the pill. No wonder he writes 'For my final wish, another/ final wish, ' wishing to keep writing poems forever."
-Billy Collins
Worlds exists in the aftermath of grief, violence and addiction. These are not easy poems, and Lee offers no easy solutions . . . Yes, there's wreckage here, but also these words will carry you. This is a striking debut collection--a voice that feels urgent, honest, and earned."
-Matthew Olzmann
The Only Worlds We Know is an "act of remembering like sharpening a blade until the blade is gone." Memory is shaped without resolution in these moving poems. They beautifully track what happens when unspeakable grief refuses to be silent.
-Terrance Hayes
-Billy Collins
Worlds exists in the aftermath of grief, violence and addiction. These are not easy poems, and Lee offers no easy solutions . . . Yes, there's wreckage here, but also these words will carry you. This is a striking debut collection--a voice that feels urgent, honest, and earned."
-Matthew Olzmann
The Only Worlds We Know is an "act of remembering like sharpening a blade until the blade is gone." Memory is shaped without resolution in these moving poems. They beautifully track what happens when unspeakable grief refuses to be silent.
-Terrance Hayes
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