Bronze Veranda

The poems in Nathan Lawr's Bronze Veranda tell something of a psychedelic coming-of-age story, excerpts from a life as the author navigates hope, sexuality and neurodivergence in the world of capitalism and colonialism. Interwoven throughout the chapbook are themes criss-crossing the worlds Lawr brings together: the deep wilderness, northern highways, farmwork, and romances of various flavors. His poems are percussive, boisterous, and innately rhythmic, Much like his songs, there is a rampaging sense of imagery and mashups of sometimes conflicting energies coming together to reveal unexpected synergies.