Do I address issues of the spirit, of the soul, in my work? Yes, definitely. As for being a Catholic poet, I was born in, and into, Catholicism - Eastern Rite Maronite and Melkite Catholicism. Not being Catholic has never… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
The poet casts an eye on what is horrendous, but his truest life is in what sustains, restores, heals. Love, the act of loving,… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
“Every once in a while I don't think it's a bad idea for lawyers to remember that what goes on, at least on some… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
Is there an aesthetic "fit" in my work between God and the world? The "I' in my poems has from the beginning identified himself as Catholic, and my books certainly can be read as presenting a Catholic theology "in a very particular sense." Catholicism is a faith morally identified with the human struggle for human dignity and justice. It is… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share
External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes the realities… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books of poems,… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
Do I address issues of the spirit, of the soul, in my work? Yes, definitely. As for being a Catholic poet, I was born… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
My sense of the poet is classical - the poet is one who makes poems. In each book, I develop and repeat certain general… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations, language. We… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
“Every lawyer shall tell his or her client that becoming involved with the legal system is like three years of experimental chemotherapy, one hundred… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
