Poetry by Joseph Lease
June 5, 2018 • 6 x 9 • 104 pages • 978-1-56689-511-8
Spare, airy, exacting poems whose quietness is often at an ironic counterpoint to their fiery leftist politics.
“Promise me the rich can’t sleep,” Joseph Lease begs in The Body Ghost, offering poems as light on the page as nursery rhymes, and as powerful as prayer. Here, verse conjures up the body in pain, the body politic in collapse, and the tensile strength of the filaments that connect us.
About the Author
Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify (Coffee House Press 2011) and Broken World (Coffee House Press 2007). Lease has received the Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize and numerous grants and awards in poetry and poetics from Columbia University, Brown University, Harvard University, and California College of the Arts. He is a professor of writing and literature at California College of the Arts and a member of the advisory board of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.