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Lawrence Welsh
Books by Lawrence Welsh
Cutting the Wire
Photographs and Poetry from the US-Mexico Border
Edited by Lisa McNiel
Cutting the Wire, a masterful collaboration between photographer Bruce Berman and poets Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh, offers us a way to look again, to really look, at the border between Mexico and the United States. Berman, who has photographed and lived in El Paso for decades, is a documenta...
Begging for Vultures
New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009
Introduction by V.B. Price
The poetry of Lawrence Welsh crosses many borders, from South Central Los Angeles, where he was raised, to El Paso, where he has lived for almost twenty years. A newspaper man turned poet, a punk rock songwriter who became an English teacher, an Irishman at home in Texas, Welsh gives voice to the...