Description
Life of the Bones to Come by Larry Laurence
ISBN 978-0930773571
Highly accessible, these are poems about love and work. They are bawdy and sublime, loving and carnal. Each poem suggests its own story, yet, taken together, they off entrance to the world in all its depth and mystery. Larry Laurence has won awards from Artists Trust and the Seattle Arts Commision and has received residencies from Squaw Valley (California) Community of Writers and Cummington (Massachusetts) Center of the Arts.
Life of the Bones to Come has been selected by the National Association of College Stores for its nationwide display during Poetry Month 2000.
Reviews
Life of the Bones to Come seems to implicate us all, or so many. Stories abound, the central character of each poem shifting so often that suggestions of tales emerge, especially about bodies having or just finished having sex, with varying afterthoughts. Even the specifics of the one or two locations, the bay or the lake — an old woman recently dead or the self distilled to fingerlings, to tension in a butterfly wing — are portraits of us, these bones our future when “the ‘I’ begins to be the unnecessary.”
—Michael Daley
In exquisite language which stands a little aside from itself, aware of what it can and cannot do, these poems are payers of beauty and pain. This is art, they say. You aren’t supposed to believe it as life except for the pure truth of the feelings it evokes in you. Yet they cut deep . . . “What is real?” they ask. “Whatever hurts.” Larry Laurence’s poems make us see the miracle of nature, love, eros and history new again.
—Judith Roche
About the Author
Larry Laurence was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a Navy family that moved many times throughout his childhood. He earned a Masters degree in English from California State University at Fresno. He was a laborer for twelve years before earning a second Masters degree, this time in Rehabilitation Counseling, from Seattle University. He has received grants from Artist Trust and The Seattle Arts Commission, plus residencies from Squaw Valley Community Of Writers, Squaw Valley, California, and Cummington Center Of The Arts, Cummington, Massachusetts. His first book, Scenes Beginning With The Footbridge At The Lake, a chap-book from Brooding Heron Press, Waldron Island, Washington was published in 1992.
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