ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lawrence Grieco is a retired librarian who has been writing poetry for most of his life. He has presented his poems at live readings countless times, but this collection marks the first time they have seen publication. During his career, he wrote a regular blog on the American Library Association’s Programming Librarian website, and has been a columnist for the last twenty years in the Weekly Register-Call, a small, rural newspaper located in Black Hawk, Colorado. He graduated from the State University of NY at Buffalo with a Bachelor’s degree in English and a Master’s in Library Science, and studied Anthropology in graduate school at the University of Colorado. In 1970 he was a VISTA volunteer on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. He lives just outside of Denver.
The Dogwood Tree
and Other Poems
by Lawrence Grieco
The Dogwood Tree
and Other Poems
by Lawrence Grieco
Published Oct 29, 2019
57 Pages
Genre: POETRY / General
Book Details
“These poems are soothing, kind of like putting a raw steak on a black eye.” –Johnny Long, Bluesman
The Enchanted Forest
At night,
Under a full moon,
The winds howl
And are answered
By howling wolves,
Until their voices merge
Into one enchanting song,
And you can no longer
Hear the wolves
For the wind
Lawrence Grieco has put together this new collection of poems, which spans a half century of writing. The Dogwood Tree contains poems on a variety of subjects, from romance to unrequited love, from baseball to anthropology (sometimes both at once), and from Eastern Philosophy to simple wordplay. His poetry is easy to read, but often has a deeper, underlying meaning, waiting for the perceptive reader to discover it. And sometimes, too, there’s a whimsical interplay of words and ideas just for the sheer joy of it. He leaves the door open for you to enter a world full of free and unselfconscious verse, where there are only three rules: “Make people laugh, make people cry, make people want to write poems themselves.”
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