Breathe a World (The Breathing Books) - Patrick Lawler
Breathe a World is the final book in Lawler’s element series (QUINTESSENCE), written over the last 35 years. It includes two books which speak evocatively to each other: “the exhalation therapist” and “breathe a wor(l)d.”
ISBN 979-8-9853587-3-52022$21.95PATRICK LAWLER has published six previous books of poetry: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (University of Georgia Press, 1990); (reading a burning book) (Basfal Books, 1994); Feeding The Fear Of The Earth (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2006); Under Ground (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2011); Trade World Center (Ravenna Press, 2012), and Child Sings in the Womb (Bitter Oleander Press, 2014). In addition, he has two books of fiction: Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds (winner of Fiction Collective Two Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Award, 2013), and The Meaning of If (a collection of short stories from Four Way Books, 2014).
Among his awards are two New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, a Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Grant, the CNY Book Award for Fiction, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He has written, in collaboration or individually, numerous plays and film scripts.
Breathe a World is the final book in Lawler’s element series (QUINTESSENCE), written over the last 35 years. It includes two books which speak evocatively to each other: “the exhalation therapist” and “breathe a wor(l)d.”
ISBN 979-8-9853587-3-52022$21.95PATRICK LAWLER has published six previous books of poetry: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (University of Georgia Press, 1990); (reading a burning book) (Basfal Books, 1994); Feeding The Fear Of The Earth (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2006); Under Ground (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2011); Trade World Center (Ravenna Press, 2012), and Child Sings in the Womb (Bitter Oleander Press, 2014). In addition, he has two books of fiction: Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds (winner of Fiction Collective Two Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Award, 2013), and The Meaning of If (a collection of short stories from Four Way Books, 2014).
Among his awards are two New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, a Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Grant, the CNY Book Award for Fiction, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He has written, in collaboration or individually, numerous plays and film scripts.
Breathe a World is the final book in Lawler’s element series (QUINTESSENCE), written over the last 35 years. It includes two books which speak evocatively to each other: “the exhalation therapist” and “breathe a wor(l)d.”
ISBN 979-8-9853587-3-52022$21.95PATRICK LAWLER has published six previous books of poetry: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (University of Georgia Press, 1990); (reading a burning book) (Basfal Books, 1994); Feeding The Fear Of The Earth (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2006); Under Ground (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2011); Trade World Center (Ravenna Press, 2012), and Child Sings in the Womb (Bitter Oleander Press, 2014). In addition, he has two books of fiction: Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds (winner of Fiction Collective Two Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Award, 2013), and The Meaning of If (a collection of short stories from Four Way Books, 2014).
Among his awards are two New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, a Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Grant, the CNY Book Award for Fiction, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He has written, in collaboration or individually, numerous plays and film scripts.
