Poetry. "Patrick Lawler's new book UNDERGROUND (NOTES TOWARD AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY) is a unique and fascinating volume: part interview, part poetry, part elegy for his father, part examination of how a son with this particular father became a writer and a poet. You will be in awe at how Lawler, a boy who spent seven years living with his family in a cellar with no books—just a magic word box—transformed himself and came to terms with his father's idiosynchrasies as well as his own. 'At One of my Father's Funerals, I was Humphrey Bogart' is a knockout piece! Read this, read it all. Find out how Lawler discovers that an ending 'blossoms into multiple beginnings.'"—Susan Terris

Author City: SYRACUSE, NY USA

Patrick Lawler is the author of four collections of poetry: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (University of Georgia Press, 1990), Reading a Burning Book (Basfal Books, 1994), FEEDING THE FEAR OF THE EARTH (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2006), and UNDERGROUND (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2011). He is an Associate Professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry where he teaches Environmental Writing and Nature Literature. In addition, he teaches creative writing courses at Onondoga Community College and LeMoyne College. Among his awards are fellowships from the New York State Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.