A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems

Name: A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems
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Rating: 4.3 (14 reviews)
Author: Lawrence Joseph

by Lawrence Joseph

Literary Fiction Memoir

4.3 (14)

187 pages~3.1 hr readPublished by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Last checked: Apr 14, 2026

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Perfect for you if...

You appreciate poetry that grapples with politics, history, and injustice without sacrificing linguistic precision or sensual depth.
You want to read a poet who actually understands systems of power because he's studied and practised law.
You're drawn to voices shaped by immigrant heritage and working-class solidarity, not detached aesthetic elegance.

Maybe not for you if...

You prefer poetry that's accessible on first reading or emotionally straightforward.
You want escape from current events, not a rigorous chronicle of global capitalism, war, and ecological crisis.
You're looking for a single complete collection rather than a curated selection spanning decades.

About this book

A Certain Clarity collects poems by Lawrence Joseph spanning from his 1983 debut Shouting at No One through 2017's So Where Are We?. The selection showcases Joseph's work as both poet and lawyer, drawing on his Lebanese and Syrian Catholic heritage, legal scholarship, and working-class background. Joseph's poems operate across multiple spatial and temporal layers, documenting global and historical change, power structures, wars, capital, racism, and ecological destruction. Alongside this witness testimony, his work incorporates sensual intimacy and an awareness of deeper order connecting beauty, love, and justice. His poetry integrates diverse thoughts, voices, and languages shaped by his professional and personal experience. The poems are formally precise, emotionally intense, and intellectually demanding, engaging with the complexities and pressures of contemporary life through moral and aesthetic force.

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