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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 abuse, and an urgent plea for mercy and justice for animals in today's world. Poet Ken Lauter went vegetarian in 1976, and still struggles to go vegan - but is convinced that non-human animals must be fully liberated if our own species is to have a sustainable future ...

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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 interrogating your mind, life history, and environment (both natural and personal) is an essential part of being human. Yet the book is not solemn or formal. Alternating between abstract and concrete, serious and whimsical, mystical and mundane, Lauter's in...

Like William Blake's Songs ofInnocence and Experience, thesepoems evoke childhood moments-from the dream-like states of infancyto the early exhilarations of nature, animals, games, school, sex, andthe earliest discoveries of love. Suchelusive memories are screened throughthe double lens of the boy's innocenceand the grown man's more complexawareness.In exploring the world of the poet'spersonal history, First Kingdomsalso records and celebrates...

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 our lives. The book explores the body's evolution, its vast array of organs, its role in our thinking and emotional life, and its complex and profound interface with both birth and death. These poems open a fresh and exciting vista on a familiar yet always mysterious...

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 the city where they were married and lived for a total of ten years, first in the 1960s and again in the 1980s. Their current impressions are layered over their earlier memories of "the Old Pueblo" and the surrounding Sonoran desert which they once regarded as a kind of paradise. These "...

THE GHOSTS - NOTES FROM A FIELD STUDYPoems by Ken LauterBook DescriptionIn The Ghosts an anonymous anthropologist somehow discovers the land of a tribe of ghosts. Living with them for a year or so, he learns their language, culture, history and institutions, their hopes, dreams, emotions, virtues, and flaws. His primary informant among the ghosts is a beautiful female spirit, and he promptly falls in love with her, thereby sacrificing scientif...

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 deeper intimations. For fuller context, the poems and paintings are interleaved with short passages describing 17th century Dutch history, art, and society. What emerges is a collection that celebrates Vermeer's unique gifts while plumbing his personal predicament...

SONGS FROM WALNUT CANYON brings the reader into a world ofnatural beauty, geological wonder, history, and myth. Most of them actually composed in the canyon, these poems are songs of the present that evoke songs past- in the daily lives and music of those who once inhabited the canyon, and in the voices of Crow, the Corn God, Flute Player, and Last Singer. Walnut Canyon is an extraordinary place. This book attempts both to honor that fact and ...

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 the only American poet to have a Friends and Enemies Society named for him, Stevens wrote some of the most haunting verse in the English language- as well as some of the most maddeningly obscure. His paradoxical personal and professional life has come to loom almost a...

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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 and reflects both our current national identity and the Canyon's lingering sense of myth and sacred reverberation from earlier eras. Along the way, we meet such characters as John Wesley Powell, ancient canyon residents, and a couple of ordinary American tourists. U...

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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 fourteen previous books of poetry and a prose/poetry memoir of his experiences as an environmental activist, The Ratlue Diaries: Two Poets and the Rocking K War in Tucson Arizona (SFA Press, 2017). These early poems were originally assembled in three manuscripts: In Praise (w...

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Offers 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 Rincon Valley, twenty-five miles from downtown Tuscon, Arizona. This is a deeply moving account of events in a Southwestern town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human greed and compassion.