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Underground (Notes Toward an Autobiography)
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
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76 pages
Published
December 6th 2011
by Many Mountains Moving
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Underground was published by a small press called Many Mountain Moving Press, which seems to be the one-man operation of Jeffrey Ethan Lee. Unexpectedly, I found myself quite affected by the book, which is, indeed, a sort of memoir, or more precisely, the account of a father rendered by a son. Unexpectedly, since generally I am quite suspicious of any rendering of world or word into binaries, such as dark/light; interior/exterior; above/beneath; shadow/sun, etc. For some reason, I accepted such
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I was the editor of this book, and it started with a night almost two and a half years ago when I read an interview with the author for The Bitter Oleander literary journal. So this is what I wrote for the preface:
"When I first read Patrick Lawler’s 2009 interview with Paul B. Roth in The Bitter Oleander Volume 15, No. 1, it was like a prose poem at an adagio tempo, but it was also like a memoir. It was pointed, profound, wry and artful moreso than any other interview I had ever read. It grew mo ...more
"When I first read Patrick Lawler’s 2009 interview with Paul B. Roth in The Bitter Oleander Volume 15, No. 1, it was like a prose poem at an adagio tempo, but it was also like a memoir. It was pointed, profound, wry and artful moreso than any other interview I had ever read. It grew mo ...more
I loved this book--wish I'd written it myself! WOW! The sweep of narrative and image, the dis-conjunctures, the imaging visuals! This is the story of a man who grew up in a basement, his father and his family. It is told in a series of interviews and poems. "To prepare for levitation, place one foot firmly in the air." And the book levitates the reader. :-D
One of the single most important books I have ever read. Underground is a book that will live inside me.
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