Lawrence Joseph

Lawrence Joseph is the author of seven books of poems, most recently A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). He has also written two books of prose, Lawyerland (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose (University of Michigan Press). He retired as Tinnelly Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law and lives in New York City.

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Poem | It Is This That Is Intended

This, to save the Republic, / this for the glory of the state, they, the inheritors of, / for them, a great tradition, in their murderous insistences / they, the United States, conduct a killing spree
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