The One Who Swears You Can't Start Over Sarah Lawson

The One Who Swears You Can't Start Over Sarah LawsonThe One Who Swears You Can't Start Over is both an elegiac record of losses and a testimony to our collective human determination to begin again. Though the book is centered around family and losses (loss of a mother to Alzheimer's, loss of a child, loss of a friend to suicide), it also includes a number of coming of age poems; poems on poetry, including the deadpan funny 'Why I Lied My Way Through Childhood'; persona poems written in voices unique as

Henri Volohonsky

Poetry in Four Dimensions

On the eve of Occupy Wall Street

Odysseus Elytis

most recently Heaven's Gate (2001)

and the last about closing it at the end of the night

Pewter is a brilliant comic creation

) to the Fifth Day

In addition to his many poetry collections he published two much admired volumes of short stories and three books for children

"Potterland" as Peter Stead terms it

TLS and The Best American Poetry 2000

Lebanese-Palestinian Nabil Abu Hamad with an excerpt from The Cripple