Lawrence Giffin is the author of two books of poetry, PLATO'S CLOSET (Roof Books, 2016) and CHRISTIAN NAME (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012). He is a co-editor at Golias Books. UNTITLED, 2004 (After Hours Editions, 2020) is his latest book.
Poetry. CHRISTIAN NAME culls poems begun in 2005, when the poet Eric Baus introduced Giffin to linguistic studies on the "feral-child" Susan Wiley, better known by her medical pseudonym "Genie." Wiley was kept in isolation by her family until the ag...
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Poetry. "Dear Lawrence, Reading yr psychotic book, I swear I feel "ting'd with a resplendent glow," which is what Keats wrote of Byron's verse when he compared it to a moon-soaked cloud. The whole point is that the militarization of our life world i...
Poetry. Art. Lawrence Giffin's UNTITLED, 2004 is anchored in encounters with the works of the late artist, Agnes Martin. Meditations on her final painting provide the occasion for a poem—about death and birth, history and chance, love and exploitati...