The Long Road Home by Martin Lammon

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Gratitude and grief, beauty and time, prayers and progeny. These poems are heartfelt and heart-filled, never afraid of emotion and ache. Martin Lammon‘s THE LONG ROAD HOME evokes many different versions of home–the homes of our past lives with our fathers and grandfathers  filled with plangent nostalgia, the habitats of animals so vulnerable and thrilling, the homes that poets make inside the words and worlds of other poets.  Like the “poetry fathers” he lovingly evokes, Martin Lammon is a poet of place and fidelity to those places, like James Wright, he’s not afraid to make us feel the hurt and the glory within those places. THE LONG ROAD HOME is a worthy trip for anyone who’s longed to feel again the pull of those places that haunt our imaginations, those locales we resist but know are true.

–Allison Joseph, author of Confessions of a Barefaced Woman

 

In The Long Road Home, Martin Lammon gives us acutely observed poems that discover and clarify and question, and in the end, often achieve a kind of wisdom. His is a clean, powerful music that moves and delights us, even as we travel that sad road. What a fine collection this is.
–Judson Mitcham, Georgia Poet Laureate (2012-2019), author of A Little Salvation: Poems Old and New
 
In the inimitable happiness of The Long Road Home, consolations abound as fathers and sons enact their natures—sometimes ferocious, often vulnerable—against the backdrop of aging and death. Martin Lammon traces a rural Ohio childhood through adult intimations of wonder and love, beyond what he calls “[t]he only other beautiful thing,” followed by the next, always the next: “And if my father and I // cannot say where the soul goes when we die, or if / we have souls, what we have is enough.” Lammon’s long-awaited second collection brims with candor and relentless birdsong.

–Michael Waters, author of The Dean of Discipline, coeditor of Contemporary American Poetry

 
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The Long Road Home

by Martin Lammon

$18.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-64662-178-1

2020

Martin Lammon is the author of News From Where I Live (winner of the Arkansas Poetry Award) and editor of the anthology Written in Water, Written in Stone: Twenty Years of Poets on Poetry for the University of Michigan Press’s “Poets on Poetry” series. His poems and essays have appeared in such literary journals as The Atlanta Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, Poets & Writers, The Southern Review, and many others. Poems published in Nimrod were selected by W.S. Merwin for a Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. He has founded two national literary journals (Kestrel at Fairmont State in West Virginia; Arts & Letters at Georgia College). From 1998-2003, he served on the board (including two terms as President) of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), the nation’s largest association of writers, editors, teachers and students of creative writing. After many years teaching and living in Milledgeville, Georgia, he now resides in Atlanta, where he continues his work as a writer and an advocate for writers and the literary arts.

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