Background
Lawrence "Larry" Kearney was born in 1948, in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton, New York, 13902, United States
Lawrence Kearney attended the State University of New York in Binghamton.
(The story of a fourth-generation alcoholic begins in 1934...)
The story of a fourth-generation alcoholic begins in 1934, when the author first becomes aware of his father's drinking and continues with his own battle, which culminated in a violent marriage, the loss of his career, and eventual recovery.
https://www.amazon.com/Whiskeys-Children-J-Erdmann/dp/1575662159/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Larry+Kearney&qid=1597422074&s=books&sr=1-4
1995
(A recovering alcoholic documents his first year of sobrie...)
A recovering alcoholic documents his first year of sobriety after returning home from rehabilitation.
https://www.amazon.com/Bar-Every-Corner-Sobering-Tempting/dp/1568387377/ref=sr_1_11?dchild=1&keywords=Larry+Kearney&qid=1597422074&s=books&sr=1-11
2001
(Through a series of deeply personal interviews with indiv...)
Through a series of deeply personal interviews with individuals from different walks of life, the authors conduct a captivating discourse on discovering a "higher power." The interview subjects are not proselytizers, nor are they interested in comparing spiritual states. Their stories are neither tidy nor definitive. What they offer, however, is a remarkable, refreshing, and ultimately satisfying mosaic on the meaning and manifestation of God.
https://www.amazon.com/Finding-God-When-Dont-Believe/dp/1568389833/ref=sr_1_10?dchild=1&keywords=Larry+Kearney&qid=1597422074&s=books&sr=1-10
2003
(The first substantial collection available from Larry Kea...)
The first substantial collection available from Larry Kearney in two decades, since Streaming, this book collects two new works. One exceptional long long poem -"Everything Goes But the Poem" - stretches over some 60 pages, the extended lyric. It's joined by one shorter long poem, "Calliope," some of the parts of which are pictures, some of the words of which are others' words. All together, they make curious music: "catch your breath and put it in the mayonaisse jar, with the cricket."
https://www.amazon.com/everything-Calliope-Listening-Chamber-Poetry/dp/0963932152/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=Larry+Kearney&qid=1597422074&s=books&sr=1-5
2010
(Edward Hogg, a thirteen-year-old boy in 1950 Brooklyn, di...)
Edward Hogg, a thirteen-year-old boy in 1950 Brooklyn, discovers that he's being accessed by the shifting, malicious, imbecilic world of the unsuccessfully dead. He has a crazed enemy in the fifteen-year-old son of Annabella Parenti, the corrupt local holder-of-seances, and when he agrees to work for Annabella, hoping to contact his recently dead mother, hell breaks loose. Fast, elegiac, brutal, and haunted.
https://www.amazon.com/Fatality-Larry-Kearney/dp/1478348240/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=Larry+Kearney&qid=1597422074&s=books&sr=1-6
2012
(Fish Gotta Swim is an extraordinary story of a child comi...)
Fish Gotta Swim is an extraordinary story of a child coming to consciousness of the world through the measures and sightings of poetry and song, this time in Mother Brooklyn.
https://www.amazon.com/Fish-Gotta-Swim-Larry-Kearney-ebook/dp/B019HML6XG/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Larry+Kearney&qid=1597422074&s=books&sr=1-2
2016
Lawrence "Larry" Kearney was born in 1948, in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Lawrence Kearney attended the State University of New York in Binghamton.
Lawrence Kearney moved to San Francisco in 1964 and became involved with the group of poets centered around North Beach and generally and inaccurately described as the San Francisco Renaissance - Spicer, MacInnis, Duerden, Duncan, Brautigan, Stanley, Blaser, Kyger, Meltzer, Hirschman. His closest friends in poetry were Jack Spicer and Richard Duerden, and Spicer's insistence on being willing to, and capable of, saying what the poem wants to say when it wants to say it, endures for him as a working definition - poetry as the whole of the real - the seen and unseen, heard and unheard - the voices of the haunted living and the unsuccessfully dead.
Though he wrote throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Kearney did not have a major nationwide release until Kingdom Come, in 1980. Kingdom Come features poems written from the perspective of different characters that Kearney describes as "people whose chief dread - that nothing will work out - has come true." He wrote two books with Jack Erdmann. They offer an unflinching look at the misery of addiction as well as the potential for hope. Jack Erdmann was an alcoholic salesman who lost everything, gradually regained his life during twenty years of sobriety, and then chose to tell his story to give hope to others. Erdmann and Kearney's first collaboration was Whiskey's Children, which begins with Erdmann's childhood in a violent, alcoholic family and then details Erdmann's helpless repetition of his father's mistakes with his own wife and children. Readers were struck by the truth of the story. Kearney also worked with Erdmann on his next book, A Bar on Every Comer: Sobering Up in a Tempting World. This work focuses on Erdmann's first year of recovery, outlined according to the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Erdmann and Kearney show Erdmann's struggles returning to a society where most everyone drinks, including his mother and his coworkers.
(The story of a fourth-generation alcoholic begins in 1934...)
1995(Fish Gotta Swim is an extraordinary story of a child comi...)
2016(Through a series of deeply personal interviews with indiv...)
2003(Edward Hogg, a thirteen-year-old boy in 1950 Brooklyn, di...)
2012(The first substantial collection available from Larry Kea...)
2010(A recovering alcoholic documents his first year of sobrie...)
2001