Description
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 Bio
Patrick Lawler is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two New York State Foundation for the Arts grants, a Saltonstall Artist's grant, and CNY Book Award for Fiction. At SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, he teaches Literature of Nature and Environmental Writing courses, and at LeMoyne College he is Writer in Residence where, besides poetry and fiction, he teaches scriptwriting and playwriting. He has published five collections of poetry: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (University of Georgia Press), reading a burning book (Basfal Books), FEEDING THE FEAR OF THE EARTH (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2006), Trade World Center (Ravenna Press), UNDERGROUND (NOTES TOWARD AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY), combining an interview with poetry and memoir (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2011), and CHILD SINGS IN THE WOMB (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2014). His novel Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds is the winner of the Ronald Sukenick American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize—Fiction Collective 2 (University of Alabama Press). Four Way Books will be publishing a collection of short stories, The Meaning of If, in 2014.
Author City: LIVERPOOL, NY USA