Why Not Say What Happens?

Lawrence Joseph is the author of seven books of poems, most recently A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this past March. 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 recently retired as Tinnelly Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law, and lives in New York City.