A Certain Clarity

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 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