The Long Road Home - by Martin Lammon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Martin Lammon's long-awaited second collection, The Long Road Home, gathers poems of joy and heartache that ultimately celebrate those unexpected discoveries which make a life's story worth telling.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Martin Lammon's long-awaited second collection, <em>The Long Road Home</em>, offers poems that tell stories about a son's affection for his mother and father, and a husband's abiding love. His poems tell stories about back roads that crisscross Ohio's heartland, the Deep South, and beyond his homeland's borders, stories sometimes sad, sometimes funny, but always surprisingly familiar. Whether searching for Emus near the Oconee River, feeding pigs on his grandfather's farm, dancing with his beloved, or climbing up Blood Mountain and singing just for fun to the birds, Lammon reminds us how poems preserve best those moments that we long to hold on to, rewind and replay again and again. Like the poet Robert Frost, Lammon chooses the road less traveled, but rather than go alone down that solitary road, he invites the reader to join him on the journey.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>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 <em>THE LONG ROAD HOME</em> 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. <em>THE LONG ROAD HOME</em> 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.</p><p><strong>--Allison Joseph</strong>, author of <em>Confessions of a Barefaced Woman</em></p><p> </p><p>In <em>The Long Road Home</em>, Martin Lammon<strong> </strong>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.</p><p><strong>--Judson Mitcham</strong>, Georgia Poet Laureate (2012-2019), author of <em>A Little Salvation: Poems Old and New</em></p><p> </p><p>In the inimitable happiness of <em>The Long Road Home</em>, 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.</p><p><strong>--Michael Waters</strong>, author of T<em>he Dean of Discipline</em>, coeditor of <em>Contemporary American Poetry</em></p><br>
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