Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos(1st Edition) Poems 1973-1993 by LawrenceJoseph Paperback, 194 Pages, Published 2005 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-12517-2, ISBN: 0-374-12517-1
"The first three books by the author of "Into It""Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos" brings together the poems from Lawrence Joseph's first three books of poetry: "Shouting at No One, Curriculum Vitae," and "Before Our Eyes." Now in one volume, the poems from these three books can be seen as the work of one of American poetry's most original and challenging poets."
Lawyerland(1st Edition) An Unguarded, Street-Level Look At Law & Lawyers Today by LawrenceJoseph Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 2004 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52987-1, ISBN: 0-374-52987-6
"A lawyer — his name was Arthur. Arthur Pendleton III. Pendleton & Strong —
Arthur's grandfather was the founding partner. By the time they got to Arthur, the
blood was a bit thin. Arthur opposed — vehemently — the National Labor
Belations Act, the minimum wage, unemployment compensation, Social Security.
This was in fifty-three, fifty-four. The legislation then, you have to remember, hadn'
t been around even twenty years yet. Arthur ..."
Into It(1st Edition) Poems by LawrenceJoseph Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2007 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53057-0, ISBN: 0-374-53057-2
"Strikingly contemporary new work by an acclaimed poetInto It, Lawrence Joseph's fourth book of poems, is as bold a book as any in American poetry today-an attempt to give voice to the extremes of American reality in the time since, as Joseph puts it, "the game changed."Joseph's first three books dramatized the challenge of maintaining one's self in a world in the hold of dehumanizing forces. The new book finds him in a time and place wh ..."
A Certain Clarity Selected Poems by LawrenceJoseph 208 Pages, Published 2021 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53934-4, ISBN: 0-374-53934-0
"A selection of poems from the celebrated poet and lawyer Drawing from his first book, Shouting at No One, from 1983, and continuing through to his most recent, So Where Are We?, from 2017, A Certain Clarity provides a generous selection of ..."
So Where Are We?(Reprint) Poems by LawrenceJoseph Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2018 by Farrar Strauss Giroux 3Pl ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53771-5, ISBN: 0-374-53771-2
So Where Are We? Poems by LawrenceJoseph Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2017 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-26667-7, ISBN: 0-374-26667-0
"“So where are we?” asks Lawrence Joseph in the title poem of his powerful and moving sixth book of poetry. Beginning where his acclaimed collection Into It left off, amid the worldwide violence unleashed by the World Trade Center terrorist attack, Joseph’s poems―global and historic in scope―boldly encounter the imaginative challenges of our time: issues of political economy, labor and capital, racism and war, and “the point at which / v ..."
INTO IT.(1st Edition) (SIGNED) by LawrenceJoseph Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2005 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-17569-6, ISBN: 0-374-17569-1
A Certain Clarity Selected Poems by LawrenceJoseph Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2020 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-26112-2, ISBN: 0-374-26112-1
"A selection of poems from the celebrated poet and lawyerBeginning with his first book, Shouting at No One, from 1983, and continuing through to his most recent, So Where Are We?, from 2017, A Certain Clarity provides a generous selection of Lawrence Joseph’s poetry “of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness” (John Ashbery), each poem “an inspired, made thing by a poet-advocate who has honed a timely song within an urgent t ..."
The Ages of the World Book One: the Past (Original Version, 1811) (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) by Schelling, F W J, and Lawrence, Joseph P Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2020 by State University Of New York Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-7406-9, ISBN: 1-4384-7406-7
"Our erstwhile editor, Charles D. Lieber, first proposed this book and has
continued to give us sage counsel over the years. Our present editor, Richard
Kennedy, and our manuscript editor, Susan Rothstein, have been consistently
cooperative with a pair of sometimes fractious authors. Olivia Buehl has played
her role of picture editor with devotion and sensitivity. We think it does no
injustice to our teachers and associates to say t ..."
A Certain Clarity Selected Poems by LawrenceJoseph 208 Pages, Published 2020 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-72060-5, ISBN: 0-374-72060-6
"A selection of poems from the celebrated poet and lawyer Drawing from his first book, Shouting at No One, from 1983, and continuing through to his most recent, So Where Are We?, from 2017, A Certain Clarity provides a generous selection of ..."
"This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—and much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes. There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-three poets featured include Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Aracelis Girmay, Don ..."
"Twelve-year-old Maria Perez is living in poverty in rural Monterrey, Mexico. Her father died ten years ago, leaving Maria and her mother Anita to fend for themselves. There are few jobs in the area, but Anita has done everything she could to ensure their meager survival. Things are getting worse, and one day Anita is faced with a terrible choice. She makes a desperate attempt to break the never-ending cycle of poverty, with disastrous r ..."
So Where Are We? Poems by LawrenceJoseph 80 Pages, Published 2017 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-71718-6, ISBN: 0-374-71718-4
"So Where Are We? is extraordinary new work from one of our most distinctive poets."
Before Our Eyes Poems by LawrenceJoseph 72 Pages, Published 2014 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-7327-8, ISBN: 1-4668-7327-2
"But once again the lure is there, everything accepted hits you in the eye.
Illustrated magazines ... There Iam, outofmydepth, in a kind of firegreen,
confusing the words you andI, taken still by the physical silence of your hands.
My God, my God, ..."
"The first three books by the author of Into It Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos brings together the poems from Lawrence Joseph's first three books of poetry: Shouting at No One, Curriculum Vitae, and Before Our Eyes."
"Alasry is deeply unsettled by the 9/11 attacks. Sensing that “her people” are now
political enemies as well as cultural aliens, she must feel her way through an
American society she is part of, but which her Yemeni parents consider hostile,
inaccessible to them, and morally suspect. The tenets of Islam (and avid
consumption of American movies) are the toolkit Alasry uses to construct
pathways between her family, school, and the lar ..."
Into It Poems by LawrenceJoseph 80 Pages, Published 2014 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-7325-4, ISBN: 1-4668-7325-6
"The new book finds him in a time and place where "the immense enlargement / of our perspectives is confronted / by a reduction of our powers of action"-where the word "wargame" is a verb and "the weight of violence / is unparalleled in the ..."