Gary Lemons' Original Grace is the fourth book in the Snake Quartet And his eight collection of poetry published. Gary received a BFA from the Undergraduate Poetry Workshop At the University of Iowa in 1973 where he studied with Norman Dubie, Marvin Bell, Donald Justice, John Berryman, William Stafford, And Diane Wakowski among others. He currently lives in Port Townsend, WA. with his beautiful life partner Nöle Giulini And spends his time writing and gardening and doing yoga.

Books by Gary Lemons:

Other poems on the web by Gary Lemons:
"Nowhere to Hide"
"End Game"
Three poems
"Snake’s Karma"
"Parting Words"

Gary Lemons's Website.

About Snake IV: Original Grace:

"In Original Grace, the amazing conclusion to the Snake Quartet, Gary Lemons has found a deep syntactical pulse in the language that mixes witnessing with hallucination—arching across this series of books, I have to observe that the imagination working here is not only compassionate but weeps for us all. And yet the passage through imagination lifts us in just the way Blake intended when he took a large rake to the King's messenger. I love these insurrections of mind. Taken as one book or as a whole the Snake Quartet is a relevant and signal accomplishment. Praise no blame!"
—Norman Dubie