Local bookstores and libraries often provide venues for poets and local authors, and many of them have invited me to read over the years, so when possible, please shop local! Any bookstore should be able to special order it for you using the ISBN, so please utilize your local independent bookshop. The book is also available through interlibrary loan. Check WorldCat for which libraries currently carry this title.  Reviews of Poet Loiterer: “Lang’s themes include wanderlust, love for nature (and especially hiking in the California hills), religious devotion, paying the bills versus living the artist’s life, and transforming from a passive pacifist to an activist. “You gave me lungs, / so that I might breathe peace” expresses forthright praise to God in “What You Created,” and elsewhere, verse expresses delight in Jewish practice: “There’s music and Torah both running through my soul,” she observes–a quirky combination that brings to mind a Jewish Janis Joplin. In the satirical “Doves in Season,” the traditional peace symbol is being hunted. “Fear not the rocking boat,” another poem advises, encouraging readers to question racism, capitalism, and America’s reliance on weapons. There’s “More than one way to be an American,” the poem “Headline Antidote” insists; indeed, this collection imagines a peaceful, joyful future America.” — Kirkus Reviews Read the full review here: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dl-lang/poet-loiterer/ Preview on Google Books Description: The title Poet Loiterer is a joke between my husband and I, that I am not anyone’s Poet Laureate, but a poet who, as a result of health issues, spends most of her time loitering around town, home, synagogue, doctors’ offices, and when I feel up to it, hiking, lots and lots of hiking! This book is a pastry, fluffy with a chocolate center. This entire book was written in 2015 in various locations around the Bay Area, which is a first, as my previous books had also contained many old poems that I’d written as a kid. This is all me at age 31/32 with poems created from April – November 2015. It starts out with “To Get Free” which won Best of Show at the Solano County Fair in 2015. It is a diverse 180 page volume with nature poems, protest poems, spiritual poems, and story poems. The cover photograph of my loitering outside my synagogue was generously donated and was taken on December 4, 2015 by Norm Levin of Natural Portraits and Events. Grab it on Amazon!   Complete list of poems included in this volume:  To Get Free Songs In The Key Of Grief Mare Island Poet Loiterer Essentially Unemployable Reassurance Railway Meditation Mind Wanderer Muir Beached Strangers Immersed Seasons Unanswered Idleness In The Artist’s Playground Going Why I Hike Wanderlust After 20 Pier Dreams City Hiking If This New Year From Unity To Community The Swamps Of Patriot Day What Of The Forest? Live A Little The Only Thing That I Need A Pretty Good Day The Key To Light Lighting Up In Tune Holy Songs Incomparable Joy Transforming Tunes Melodies Forever Community Together Retreat One Weekend Contentment Thrown Overboard I’m Not Lost, But You Found Me Higher Songs Rebooting My Soul Unplugged Returning To The Place Of My Heart Midnight Guardian Staying Wrapped Inside Your Presence Praying Out Loud Legendary Consumed There Must Be An Answer Now Surrender I’ve Half A Mind To… Are We Free? Are You Paying Attention? Statues Meant For? Memorial Day Urgency Headline Antidote Unity Ain’t Nothing Changed? Clarity Warrior Ancestors We Never Build Just One Flags Of Hate There Are No Words Endurance Conformity Farmer’s Market Uprising High Sympathy Naked Personality This Independence Day Fair Pillars Of The Past Doves In Season: A Love Poem To Nature’s Restoration Humanity Searching To Dream Escapism Opener You Are The Connector My Haunted Friend Mindful Clouds What Is Life? Meteors O’pink Uncontrollable Flame Poetic Timing Penguin Child Writer Child Why I Art Poetry Rains Sometimes There After Dark When It Feels Right Hold Back Life Worthy Narrative Existence Honest Accounting My Beloved Accidental Love Poem Soulmate Descriptor Love Is Not Regret Farewell Eat Your Fears Host Poet What Is There? Smattering Of Mattering Vallejo Days The Day After Storm The Road Webbing Water Beyond The Fence Once Upon A Dog Bottle Of Mine Penguin Season Blues Journal Dilemma On Staying In United Divided By Chocolate Sparks Aligned What Must Be Giver Loneliness Sprouts Doubt A Future In It Life Worth, Life’s Work Origin Point Customer Service For Existence Simmering Moments Disappointing You Old Songs from Another Lifetime Perspectives Old Fashioned Behind These Digital Walls Pretty Pictures Technology Pushers Of POV A Festive Apology What You Created Dan  

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