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In About to Be Young, his debut collection of poems, Monroe Lawrence sets out to write the most emotional poetry that he can. The sequence of poems, of which selections have appeared in venues such as Best American Experimental Writing, The Capilano Review, The Brooklyn Review, Flag + Void, and Prelude Mag, deploy plain language, grammatical torque, and organic visual forms to investigate issues of memory, family, queer sexuality, and shame. Throughout the sequence, he takes the poet John Wieners’s injunction that he must write “the most embarrassing thing” as a rule, and indulge in the absolute lyric impulse to be plangent: to cringe and sing.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Fonograf Editions
Imprint: The Elephants
Publication Date:
24 March 2026
ISBN: 9781988979434
Format: eBook
BISACs:
POETRY / American / General, POETRY / General
Monroe Lawrence was born in Campbell River, Canada on unceded Coast Salish lands. He grew up in Squamish BC, lived in Vancouver, and now lives in Pawtucket RI on ancestral Massachusett and Pawtucket lands. He was once the Canadian National Champion for cross-country mountain biking. In 2016, he traveled to Lyssarea, Greece to watch Gregory Markoupolos’s 80hr film, Eniaios. In 2019 he received the Person of the Year award at Curry College. His writing has been published in Best American Experimental Writing, The Capilano Review, The Brooklyn Review, Flag + Void, Prelude Mag, and in a chapbook, Nice,, with L.A.S.E.R. Press.