Hard Times Require Furious Dancing (Poetry - Big Table Press)
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In Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, Lawrence Kessenich shows himself to be a poet of finely tuned attention to the phenomenal world and to the chords and colors, the phrasings and understandings it engenders. These poems, honed in hard times, are always in service to the furiously dancing spirit of poetry; in other words, they are true.
— Richard Hoffman. author of Noon until Night and People Once Real
Lawrence Kessenich has won numerous prizes for his exquisite books. His full and chapbook length of poems have received outstanding recognition as well as his 10 minute plays, full length plays and novels. Kessenich is a precise and delicate writer. His work touches lightly on universal topics. For instance, in "Furious Dancing", he plays with a sense of wonder and of time existing simultaneously. He merges present, past, and future with depth and wisdom. He is a master writer for our time.
- Kathleen Spivack, With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz and Others
Thomas Hobbes wrote, " Life is nasty, brutish and short." With this in mind, Kessenich's poems speak to the fact that the only way to live with the thin line of sky that separates us from eternity, our short time on the stage with the knowledge of our own demise, is to savor what is here and now. These poems are accessible but multi-layered. Kessenich savors much in these highly evocative pieces. This book will make you stop and smell that proverbial red bloom, hold your loved one's hand, and make an ordinary day at the beach a High Holy Day.
- Doug Holder, Co-President New England Poetry Club
- Kathleen Spivack, With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz and Others
Thomas Hobbes wrote, " Life is nasty, brutish and short." With this in mind, Kessenich's poems speak to the fact that the only way to live with the thin line of sky that separates us from eternity, our short time on the stage with the knowledge of our own demise, is to savor what is here and now. These poems are accessible but multi-layered. Kessenich savors much in these highly evocative pieces. This book will make you stop and smell that proverbial red bloom, hold your loved one's hand, and make an ordinary day at the beach a High Holy Day.
- Doug Holder, Co-President New England Poetry Club