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Macmillan Children's Book

A Certain Clarity

Selected Poems

Author: Lawrence Joseph; read by the author

A Certain Clarity

A Certain Clarity

$10.99

About This Book

This program is read by the author.

A selection of poems from the celebrated poet and lawyer


Beginning with his first book, Shouting at No One, from...

On Sale
03/17/2020

Book Details

This program is read by the author.

A selection of poems from the celebrated poet and lawyer


Beginning with his first book, Shouting at No One, from 1983, and continuing through to 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 testimony that embraces the complex density of truth” (Yusef Komunyakaa).

Joseph’s poems comprise one of the most essential and visionary bodies of work in contemporary American poetry. No other American poet covers the territory Joseph does. His ever-new interactions of thoughts, voices, and languages—impacted by his Lebanese and Syrian Catholic heritage, his professional life as a lawyer and legal scholar, and the economies of the world of working-class labor from which he comes—bear witness, on multilayered spatial and temporal planes, to the velocities of global and historical change, and to power structures embodied in endless wars, unleashed capital, racism, and ecological destruction, presenting an ongoing chronicle of what it means to write poetry in the turbulent times in which we live. But also integral to Joseph’s poetry is a sensual intimacy, passionately driven by an acute awareness of a deeper order in which beauty, love, and justice are indistinguishable.

Meticulously formed, emotionally fierce, intellectually challenging, Joseph’s poems press back against the high-stakes pressures of our time with a moral and aesthetic intensity not easily forgotten.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Cover Image: East River from the Shelton (East River No.1), ca. 1927–28, © 2019 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Collection of the New Jersey State Museum; purchased by the Association for the Arts of the New Jersey State Museum with a gift from Mary Lea Johnson, FA1972.229; reproduced with permission.

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Macmillan Audio

ISBN

9781250757777

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A Certain Clarity

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