Lawrence Joseph is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Into It and Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems 1973–1993, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His sixth book of poems, So Where Are We?, is forthcoming from FSG in August 2017. He is also the author of two books of prose, Lawyerland (FSG) and The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose, published by the University of Michigan Press in its Poets on Poetry Series. He is Tinnelly Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law and lives in New York City.
Poetry
July/Aug 2017
Of What We Know Now
And that February cloudless night, deep, now, in itsown reflection, golden full moons dark blue penumbra;and ice sheets collapsing causing earthquakes, rattling seismographs thousands of miles away, mountain-fire smoke, wind-driven […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2017
In This Language, in War’s Revolutions
In this language, in war’s revolutions, voice in the U-2 spy plane, in the stratosphere; and, here, pilotless Predators firing Hellfire missiles, secret surveillance installation, Langley Air Force Base, millions […]
Poetry
Autumn 2005
History for Another Time
It was, of course,impossible to have predicted the economiccycle had peaked, perhaps the most . . .what’s the word? remarkable?—perhaps the most remarkable periodin the history of capitalism. A little […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1994
Journeys to Love
The Path to Fairview by Julia Randall. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. 186 pages. $24.95. Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991 by Hayden Carruth. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon […]
Poetry
Autumn 1991
Some Sort of Chronicler I Am
Some sort of chronicler I am, mixingperceptions and emotional digressions, choler, melancholy, a sanguine view. Through a transparent eye, the need, sometimes to see everything simultaneously —strange need to confront […]
Poetry
Autumn 1991
Generation
after Akhmatova Matter smashed-Atomic Age America—being issued, dawn’s desert light blinding blue. Kaiser Aluminumspouts luminous brass vaporsat the bottom of the steaming valley. Reality depends (rumor has itin The Cafe […]
Lawrence Joseph
Lawrence Joseph is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Into It and Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems 1973–1993, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His sixth […]