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Ken Lauter
In the Company of Animals is the personal story of one man's relationship with animals across the eighty years of his life, a meditation on humanity's horrible history of animal…
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A poetic survey from many perspectives, The Structure of the Body examines the human form, both as an anatomical and physiological system and as a metaphor for other dimensions of…
THE GHOSTS - NOTES FROM A FIELD STUDYPoems by Ken Lauter Book Description
In The Ghosts an anonymous anthropologist somehow discovers the land of a tribe of ghosts. Living…
Like William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, these poems evoke childhood moments- from the dream-like states of infancy to the early exhilarations of nature, animals, games, school, sex, and…
POSTCARDS FROM PARADISE - A TUCSON SPRING is the poetic diary of a 6-week visit to Tucson, Arizona, by a couple in their 47th year together, as they return to…
SONGS FROM WALNUT CANYON brings the reader into a world of natural beauty, geological wonder, history, and myth. Most of them actually composed in the canyon, these poems are songs…
GRAND CANYON DAYS explores one of the world’s great geological wonders- its past and present, its rock, waters, plants, and animals. The book spans fifty years of the author’s life…
SEARCHING FOR MR. STEVENS is a quest to understand the art and mind of the brilliant but enigmatic Wallace Stevens. An utterly unique figure in 20th century letters, and possibly…
In his unique new poetry collection, Interrogations, Ken Lauter delivers 112 poems, each of which contains a question- or several. He believes questions are the engines of poetry and that…
Where do we live? The standard answer is: on a certain street, in a particular town, state, country, and continent- but a more fundamental answer is: in a specific solar…
Drawing on poems composed between 1960 and 1970, Out of the Gate makes available for the first time a sampling of previously unpublished work by Ken Lauter, the author of…
The poetic diary of a marriage lasting half a century, this collection sketches out the life and times of Ken and Judith Lauter. They met in 1965 in a poetry…
The poems of VERMEER IN WORDS explore the inner workings of the Dutch master’s exquisite paintings, both in order to articulate their aesthetic principles and to reveal some of their…
The Ratlue Diaries is a fictionalized account of events occurring 30 years ago in the grass-roots rebellion against the Rocking K. Ranch rezoning, a scheme to urbanize the sparsely populated…
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