
So Where Are We?
Poems
Lawrence Joseph(Author)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc (Publisher)
Published on 22. August 2017
Book
Hardback
80 pages
978-0-374-26667-7 (ISBN)
Description
So where are we? Lawrence Joseph asks in the title poem of his powerful and moving sixth book. Beginning where his acclaimed collection Into It left off, amidst the worldwide violence unleashed by the World Trade Center terrorist attacks, 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, addressing "the point at which / violence becomes ontology, / these endless ambitious experiments in destruction, / a species grief." Against these realities, Joseph presents an intimate, sensuous language of beauty and love, "a separate / palette kept for each poem," a constant shifting and fluid play of sound and tone. With incisive intensity and intelligence, and fierce, uncompromising vision, Joseph speaks from deep within the truths of poetry's common language. So Where Are We? is extraordinary new work by one of our most distinctive poets.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
220 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-374-26667-7 (9780374266677)
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Person
Lawrence Joseph's books of poems include Into It, Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems 1973-1993, and Before Our Eyes. He is also the author of Lawyerland, a book of prose. Among his awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is Tinnelly Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law and also has taught creative writing at Princeton. He lives in New York City.