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2018 is a poetic march through the stirring calamity of our times and its people in a single year, day-to-day. Real life problems of broken pipes, marriages, love, school shootings, higher education instructing, child raising, women's rights, racism, wildfires, politics and the force of nature show a dislocated nation in turmoil.

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Lyman Grant's 2018: Found Poems and Weather Reports, in the same vein of A.R. Ammons' Tape for the Turn of the Year, marches through the stirring calamity of our times and its people in a single year day-to-day. Real life problems of broken pipes, marriages, love, school shootings, higher education instructing, child raising, women's rights, racism, wildfires, politics and the force of nature paints a maligned historic landscape in a metacognitive travelogue, where humanism of personal responsibility finds Grant as effacing as Rousseau in his Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Grant connects the broken society of 2018 with the reader and the poet with an intelligent use of language that's profound, humorous, readable and hopeful. --Tom Murphy, author of American History and Pearl and co-editor of Stone Renga

Lyman Grant's 2018: Found Poems and Weather Reports, in the same vein of A.R. Ammons' Tape for the Turn of the Year, marches through the stirring calamity of our times and its people in a single year day-to-day. Real life problems of broken pipes, marriages, love, school shootings, higher education instructing, child raising, women's rights, racism, wildfires, politics and the force of nature paints a maligned historic landscape in a metacognitive travelogue, where humanism of personal responsibility finds Grant as effacing as Rousseau in his Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Grant connects the broken society of 2018 with the reader and the poet with an intelligent use of language that's profound, humorous, readable and hopeful. --Tom Murphy, author of American History and Pearl and co-editor of Stone Renga

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Lyman Grant is a poet living in Harrisonburg, Virginia. 2018: Found Poems and Weather Reports is his seventh collection of poems. Previous work includes Old Men on Tuesday Mornings (also by Alamo Bay Press), As Long as We Need (Black Buzzard Press), and The Road Home (Dalton Press). His essays, reviews, and poems have been published in many journals and anthologies, including Dallas Morning News, Texas Humanist, Texas Observer, descant, RE: AL, Concho River Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, Langdon Review, and Big Land Big Sky Big Hair. He attended both the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. In addition, his work been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize and won first place in The Great American Wise Ass Anthology. He has degrees from The University of Texas and Texas A&M University, and has worked at Austin Community College for over 40 years as professor, department chair, and as dean.

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