Lawrence Joseph (born 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American poet, writer, essayist, critic, lawyer, and professor of law.

Early life and education

Lawrence Joseph was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan. Joseph's grandparents, Lebanese Maronite and Syrian Melkite Eastern Catholics, were among the first Arab Americans to emigrate to Detroit around 1910, where both Joseph's parents were born.

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Other works

  • Lawyerland, prose, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997)
  • The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose, criticism, (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2011)

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References

Sources

  • Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2004. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000126684.
  • Moghabghab, Emma, and Sirène Harb. "Lawrence Joseph's Into It: A Political Study of Power and Community." Studies in the Humanities 37.1&2 (2010): 3–21.
  • New York Times Book Review 2005 essay on Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos and Into It
  • Love Conquers Evil: Poetry Is About the Timetable by Chris Hedges
  • Academy of American Poets: Lawrence Joseph biography
  • Poetry Foundation: Lawrence Joseph
  • St. John's University: Professor Joseph profile
  • Jacket 2 Feature Poet with a Steady Job: An Introduction to Lawrence Joseph, 2012, edited by Eric Selinger with essays by Thomas DePietro, Norman Finkelstein, Lawrence Joseph, John Lowney, Frank D. Rashid, Eric Selinger, Lisa Steinman, Lee Upton, and Tyrone Williams
  • Commonweal, Portrait of Our Time: An Interview with Lawrence Joseph by Anthony Domestico 2017
  • Living in the Towers' Shadow, by David Skeel, review of So Where Are We, Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2017
  • Kenyon Review 2017 Interview with Lawrence Joseph
  • Where Are We? One of the Most Brilliant and Intense People I've Ever Known Has Some Answers, by Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, Mother Jones, November 25, 2017
  • The Best Poetry of 2017, by David Orr, New York Times Book Review, December 22, 2017
  • Lawrence Joseph in conversation with Paul Elie at Georgetown University, Feb. 1, 2018
  • The Way I Feel the World: An Interview with Lawrence Joseph by Philip Metres, Michigan Quarterly Review, May 28, 2018
  • Lawrence Joseph, A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems, MacMillan Author’s Page
  • Thinking About Empire and Economy, With a Lawyer’s Mind and a Poet’s Words by Paul Franz, review of A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems, The New York Times Book Review, March 17, 2020