"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 ..."
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 ..."
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 ..."
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 ..."
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
"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."
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 ..."
"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 ..."
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, ..."
Poets on Poetry The Game Changed : Essays and Other Prose by LawrenceJoseph 162 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-02774-3, ISBN: 0-472-02774-3
"Hayden Carruth's Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991—as the poet tells us in a
prefatory note—includes about two-thirds of his published shorter poems, as well
as a section “New Poems (19861991).” Written ... Positioning himself within
various American poetic traditions, he aggressively explores our times, our
places, our language. ... Take a look, for example (which I often do) at Carruth's
1970 anthology, The Voice That Is Great Wi ..."
The Game Changed Essays and Other Prose (Poets on Poetry) by LawrenceJoseph Hardcover, 172 Pages, Published 2011 by The University Of Michigan Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-472-07161-6, ISBN: 0-472-07161-0
"Essays on poetry by the most important poet-lawyer of our era The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose presents works by prominent poet and lawyer Lawrence Joseph that focus on poetry and poetics, and on what it is to be a poet."
The Game Changed Essays and Other Prose (Poets on Poetry) by LawrenceJoseph Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-05161-8, ISBN: 0-472-05161-X
"Praise for Lawrence Joseph: "Poetry of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness… Joseph gives us new hope for the resourcefulness of humanity, and of poetry." ---John Ashbery "Like Henry Adams, Joseph seems to be writing ahead of actual events, and that makes him one of the scariest writers I know." ---David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review "The most important lawyer-poet of our era." ---David Skeel, Legal Affa ..."
"Music IS Rapid Transportation: from the Beatles to Xenakis Editor: Daniel Kernohan by Lawrence Joseph, Dan Lander, Donal McGraith, Bill Smith, Alan Stanbridge, Scott Thomson & Vern Weber photos by Gordon Bowbrick, Herb Greenslade & Bill Smith A truly alternative look at music lists, not one that merely includes the obvious but shows the connections of popular music to the avant garde, the obscure, the experimental, the quirky, and ..."
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 ..."