The Only Worlds We Know [Paperback]

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. Lees 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 subjectslove and love lost, recovery and addiction, the bullet and the pill. -Billy Collins, US Poet Laureate and Author of Sailing Alone Around the Room How much liquor can the body hold until the body leaves itself behind? -- from, Out ThereEvery adventure is a creative new way to die; I keep on living despite. -- from, RowA group of dead friends is called a memory. A grouping of grave robbers, a scalpel. I know of a surgery that removes nothing, rearranges vertebrae into a necklace of names speaking into the dark asking me to join them. -- from, The Insomniac Maps the NightI reached so far into the medicine cabinet my hand l“!