Lawrence Joseph (2) (1948–)
Autor(a) de Lawyerland: What Lawyers Talk About When They Talk About Law
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About the Author
Lawrence Joseph, the grandson of Lebanese and Syrian Catholic immigrants, was born and raised in Detroit. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Cambridge University, and the University of Michigan Law School, he is the author of six books of poetry, most recently So Where Are We?, and of mostrar mais Lawyerland, a novel, and The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose. He is the Tinnelly Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law and has taught creative writing at Princeton. He is married to the painter Nancy Van Goethem and lives in New York City. mostrar menos
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Obras de Lawrence Joseph
Associated Works
Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry (2008) — Contribuinte — 24 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Joseph, Lawrence
- Data de nascimento
- 1948
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Ocupação
- dichter
Membros
Resenhas
A certain clarity : selected poems de Lawrence Joseph
I used to live close to a neighborhood in Detroit people who are of Chaldean Christian heritage. Although there was an inwardness among the Chaldeans, there was also a sense of striving for stability which Detroit needs and Joseph's poetry shows forth. My favorite poem in the book is: "So where were we? The fiery/ avalanche headed right at us -- "
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Deep, dark, thought provoking poetry. This is a great collection, but should be avoided if you're looking for peaceful light prose. This is a realistic poetic look at the current human political microcosm, portrayed in inter-connected poems. Illuminating albeit a bit depressing... Which describes the current earthly culture rather well.
I was attracted to this book because it has impressions of Detroit. And when I read it, I could put myself back in Detroit, where I lived for 18 years. These may not be meaningful to everyone, but something clicked when I read "I note in a Notebook" this: ... A figure, in the factory / behind the Jefferson Avenue Assembly marking and filing the parts of the new model prototype / Chryslers... I worked with the bus company whose garage was in the shadow of this auto plant and can imagine the scene with Lawrence Joseph.
"Woodward Avenue" is the big street in Detroit, and the poem starts off calling it "The destination, the destiny, a street,/ an avenue." For us who lived there, it was the destiny of the city, even if withered at this point.
I also resonated with some lines in "In the Shape of Fate over my Father's Birth." I worked in pulbic transport in Detroit, and can well imagine hearing "The Trumbull streetcar screeched/ on the switch. The ratttling, old yellow Pwl Cars late at night..."
9/11 is to some degree is memorialized in "Why Not Say What Happens", "this cloud ... isn't only ash and soot", it's everything including fear and memory.… (mais)
"Woodward Avenue" is the big street in Detroit, and the poem starts off calling it "The destination, the destiny, a street,/ an avenue." For us who lived there, it was the destiny of the city, even if withered at this point.
I also resonated with some lines in "In the Shape of Fate over my Father's Birth." I worked in pulbic transport in Detroit, and can well imagine hearing "The Trumbull streetcar screeched/ on the switch. The ratttling, old yellow Pwl Cars late at night..."
9/11 is to some degree is memorialized in "Why Not Say What Happens", "this cloud ... isn't only ash and soot", it's everything including fear and memory.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Also by
- 10
- Membros
- 130
- Popularidade
- #155,342
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 25
- Idiomas
- 2