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Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011; Finalist, NCIBA Poetry Book of the Year Award), Broken World (Coffee House Press, 2007), and Human Rights (Talisman House, second edition forthcoming). Lease’s poems “’Broken World’ (For James Assatly)” and "Send My Roots Rain" have been selected for Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (Second Edition). "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" was also selected for The Best American Poetry 2002.

Marjorie Perloff wrote: “The poems in Joseph Lease’s Broken World are as cool as they are passionate, as soft-spoken as they are indignant, and as fiercely Romantic as they are formally contained. Whether writing an elegy for a friend who died of AI...more

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Books by Joseph Lease

Average rating: 4.73 · 328 ratings · 40 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Broken World 4.72 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Human Rights 4.86 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Testify 4.77 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	My Sister Life 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	The Room 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	No Gender: Reflections on the Life & Work of Kari Edwards by Julian T. Brolaski, Erica Kaufman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), E. Tracy Grinnell (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Burning Interiors: David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics by Thomas Fink, Joseph Lease (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Standing on the Verge: Emerging Poets : Emerging Massachusetts Artists by Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joseph Lease (Goodreads Author), Ellis Lease 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994	My rating:

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