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University of Houston.
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In All Their Animal Brilliance: Poems
(If poems are "levers of transcendence," as Edward Hirsch ...)
If poems are "levers of transcendence," as Edward Hirsch argues, then "In All Their Animal Brilliance" offers a collection of pry bars, each designed to jar the reader loose from the mundane. Occasion is everywhere, whether it's a bloody thumb print in a library book, a tarantula climbing one's arm, a young father thawing his wife's milk in the microwave, or a boy who sits down on a platter in an Amherst backyard and waits for Emily Dickinson to winch him into higher whiteness. In their attempt to lift us out of our expectations, these meditations--by turns tender, whimsical, or darkly comic--reveal the subterranean logic of our lives. And in the process, these poems take us places, on foot, by car, and through woods, feeding the animal hunger that lights our way.
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Genius Loci
(Lance Larsen's new poems in Genius Loci reflect his evolv...)
Lance Larsen's new poems in Genius Loci reflect his evolving sense of place and his deep insight into the particularities of everyday life. Lance Larsen is a past recipient of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry and the current Utah Poet Laureate.
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Backyard Alchemy: Poems
(Deft humor and poetic wisdom combine into a transformativ...)
Deft humor and poetic wisdom combine into a transformative new book of poetry by Utah author Lance Larsen. Offering golden glimpses of ordinary moments, Backyard Alchemy prompted poet and American Book Award winner Jim Barnes to write: "This book may save your life. You will learn something you will need to know with each poem you read."
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Lance Larsen
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He currently serves as poet laureate of Utah. In 2007 he received the Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been described as "one of those writers who clings to a quaintly Romantic notion that mortality and love and soul are the abiding themes of life and art" Lance Larsen’s fourth collection of poems, Genius Loci, was published by University of Tampa Press in 2013.
He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Houston.
His nonfiction has twice made the Notable Essay list in Best American Essays. Since 1993 he has taught literature and creative writing at Brigham Young University.
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In All Their Animal Brilliance: Poems
(If poems are "levers of transcendence," as Edward Hirsch ...)
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Genius Loci
(Lance Larsen's new poems in Genius Loci reflect his evolv...)
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Backyard Alchemy: Poems
(Deft humor and poetic wisdom combine into a transformativ...)
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In All Their Animal Brilliance: Poems
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Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.