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BIO<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ron Lucas<\/b><\/span><\/span> is an autodidactic, former factory and warehouse laborer. He was born in <\/span><\/span>kendallville, IN<\/b><\/span><\/span>, raised in the rural, <\/span><\/span>Appalachian mountains of South Eastern, KY, <\/b><\/span><\/span>and attended <\/span><\/span>Morehead State University. <\/b><\/span><\/span>He lives in <\/span><\/span>Fort Wayne, IN <\/b><\/span><\/span>and spends the harsh Midwestern winters in <\/span><\/span>Atlanta, GA<\/b><\/span><\/span> with his eldest child, an <\/span><\/span>Emory University <\/b><\/span><\/span>alumnus. His poetry has appeared in various publications for decades. This is his first collection.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING:<\/h3>\n

\u201c<\/em>THE MOTHER GOOSE MARKET<\/em> is high voltage poetry. This is poetry as poetry was meant to be experienced: the right word next to the right word; the right line next to the right line; the right poem next to the right poem. Nothing extra. Nothing wasted. Hell, this isn\u2019t even poetry, this is an autopsy, a death-bed confession, a roadside bomb. This book was written to explode.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>\u2014Wolfgang Carstens, Epic Rites Press<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Rd Armstrong’s Lummox Press isn’t merely surviving, it’s forging ahead with a vengeance\u2014with books like THE MOTHER GOOSE MARKET by Ron Lucas, Lummox Press continues to put out books of essential poetry. And by \u201cessential poetry,” I mean you need to buy this book\u2014you can thank me later.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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ISBN 9780998458007<\/strong>
\n30 Pages
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By Ron Lucas
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“I have been writing all my life. As a child in rural KY, I wrote long, highly derivative, doubtlessly horrible novels and intuitively mailed them to the only address I knew: my hillbilly transplant grandparents in Indiana. As an adult, I’ve been publishing poetry in the small presses for decades. I also suffer from anxiety and depression… when the “Great Recession” hit, I lost my car, my job, my place, and… my mind. I became so deeply depressed I even stopped writing for the first time ever. Several years later, when I started again, I found myself writing about my childhood; a topic I’d virtually never covered. And I found it very cathartic. This book grew, rather organically, out of that. I chose the title and cover because that old architectural oddity of a market is such a powerfully evocative symbol of that time and place for me.” <\/em>\u2014 Ron Lucas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4784,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[292],"product_tag":[298,438],"class_list":{"0":"post-4782","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"product_tag-lummox-press","8":"product_tag-ron-lucas","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}