Shouting at No One

by Lawrence Joseph

• Winner of the 1982 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize A passionate, ambitious, at times strangely beautiful book. . . . A reader has to like the poems Lawrence Joseph has collected in his volume. They are truly poems of the common life of human beings. They are urban poems, illed with bars, factories, automobiles, filth, the evils of racism, murder, slums, pain, and suffering, the effort to be human."--Minnesota Review

Genres: Poetry

72 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Lawrence Joseph is a poet and a lawyer.

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Reviews

[Terry · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection has been an important landmark for any one trying to make sense of Detroit (and other cities) at the end of the 20th century.

Not just history and geography, though: it's also flesh and blood, body and soul.

I've passed along copies to both of my children and a half-dozen other friends who want to know where to begin.

Begin here.