Poetry by Joseph Lease
March 15, 2011 5.8 x 8.9 63 pages 978-1-56689-258-2
A brilliant embodiment of Americas conflicted soul.
With singular grace and musicality, these accomplished poems summon the voices of a divided country. With a storytellers rhythm, Lease braids humor, political bite, psychological intensity, and lyric beauty, taking us to a place of warning, critique, and elegy.
About the Author
Joseph Lease is the author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry: Broken World, Human Rights, and The Room. His poems have also been featured on NPR and published in Bay Poetics, The AGNI 30th Anniversary Poetry Anthology, VQR,the Paris Review, and elsewhere. Leases poem Broken World (For James Assatly) appeared in The Best American Poetry, edited by Robert Creeley and David Lehman. His latest book Testify was published in 2011.