Redemption Will Come As a Song

<p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Redemption Will Come as a Song</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a combination of new and selected poetry by Lawrence Grieco spanning a half century of writing plus a number of autobiographical sketches in prose and finally five short short stories. Therefore this book has a little of everything and the good news is that all the styles of poetry and prose presented here have a way of relating to and complementing each other to make in the end a whole statement about the author's life and development as a writer and as a human being. Here you will find romance baseball anthropology-sometimes all three at once-and more. His poetry is easy to read but often has a deeper underlying meaning waiting for the perceptive reader to discover it. You will also find a whimsical interplay of words and ideas just for the sheer joy of it. His poetry is subject to three rules: Make people laugh make people cry make people want to write poems themselves. The autobiographical sketches in prose jump around the author's seven-plus decades of life defying chronology unstuck in time much like Kurt Vonnegut's character Billy Pilgrim in the novel </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Slaughterhouse-Five</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. And the short stories at the end qualify as flash fiction and are humorous excursions into storytelling. The combination of poetry memoirs and fiction make this an unusual if not unique book.</span></p>