The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance. — 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 live in manifestations of it - permanent war, environmental destrucution, poverty, racism, misogyny, the assault on… — 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… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
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
