Red Lemons - Poems

Red Lemons is a moving debut collection about drug addiction and loss told through both a narrative and surreal lens, swaying from logic to absurdity, grimness to beauty.

About the author

Sean Shearer grew up in New Jersey. His first collection of poems, Red Lemons (U of Akron, 2021), won the 2019 Akron Poetry Prize, selected by Victoria Chang. He is the recipient of a 2020 Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, and his poems have appeared in New England Review, Boulevard, Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, jubilat, and elsewhere. He received his MFA in Poetry from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he is currently a City Mail Carrier for USPS. Sean is the founder of BOAAT Press.

Product details

• Authors: Sean Shearer
• Publisher: The University of Akron Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.2021
• EAN: 9781629221953
• ISBN: 978-1-62922-195-3
• No. of pages: 65
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Akron Poetry
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama