The Road Home
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This collection of startlingly brave poems witness for us the terrible ghosts of the shattered (& shattering) center of who we are & were & where we long to be: if not at home, then at a station that offers brief solace even as we push further into a light that haunts & promises & stories us with deeds shameful, proud, profane & profound.
Lyman Grant has worked at Austin Community College for nearly thirty years. He has taught developmental writing, creative writing, composition, and literature; served as chair of the developmental writing department and of the creative writing department; and as chair of the developmental education division. Currently, he is Dean of Arts and Humanities. He has authored and/or edited six books. His previous volume of poetry is titled Text & Commentary. Lyman’s essays, reviews, and poetry have appeared in a variety of periodicals and anthologies, including The Texas Observer, Dallas Morning News, Texas Humanist, Langdon Review, Creative Pulse, Teaching English in the Two Year College, Sulphur River Literary Review, Cortland Review, Pikeville Review, Timber Creek Review, Windhover, Best Texas Writing I, The Best Man, Is this Forever or What?, Literary Austin, Houston Poetry Festival anthologies, numerous Di-Verse-City anthologies, and Feeding the Crow.
Praise for The Road Home
“Lyman Grant’s The Road Home weaves a welter of emotions-loss, regret, hope, humiliation, revenge-into an impressive array of forms (narratives, lyrics, prose poems)…The Road Home includes an intelligent Foreword by poet Larry Thomas, who makes the salient point that, ‘Grant softens the harshness of common language by juxtaposing it with passages of literary elegance.’” -Robert Bonazzi, Poetic Diversity
“There’s fire in this new collection and with it a gracefulness of phrase that makes the passions here seem exquisite. Crafting his poems with a confidence made possible by both adventure and maturity, Lyman Grant sings his readers home and into a world where points of raggedness can turn elegant.” -James Hoggard, Former Texas Poet Laureate
“From the depths of myth and personal experience, Lyman Grant weaves images and raw emotion into a rich tapestry depicting life’s passion and pain. He records the subtle dances between emotion and psyche with a keen eye, a subtle wit, and a voice that moves easily from the dramatic to a soft assuredness that one finds completely trustworthy.” -James Michael Robbins, Editor, The Sulphur River Literary Review
“Lyman Grant is in on the real secret. Oh, he may follow the de rigeurs of polite society and never admit it aloud, but this gal cannot come away from these delicious poems with any other conclusion than this: the purpose of poetry is to make people fall in love with you. It works.” -Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Oh Forbidden and Heaven
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