Resting on my Laurels contains 86 poems including many written, performed, and published during D.L. Lang’s tenure as the 2nd Poet Laureate of Vallejo. It contains such favorites as “Ancestral Honor”, “Millennium Vision”, “Use Elevator to Exit Reality”, “Train Whistle Polka”, “Benicia Bound”, “Love Poetry Capital Blockade”, “Visions,” “Vallejo, California,” “Elegant Stag,” “Little Watercraft,” “Listen!” and many, many more written and performed in 2017-2018. Read poetry posted on the blog from Resting on my Laurels. 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. List Price: $9.99 5.06″ x 7.81″ (12.852 x 19.837 cm) Black & White on White paper 130 pages ISBN-13: 978-1983939778 ISBN-10: 1983939773 BISAC: Poetry / Women Authors   Smashwords ISBN: 9780463718933 Smashwords makes ebooks compatible with all major e-reading devices in .mobi, .epub, .pdf, .lrf, .pdb, and plain text formats. The ebook is also available through Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Scribd, Kobo, and Kindle. Also available to libraries through OverDrive, Baker & Taylor Axis 360, Tolino, Gardners (Askews & Holts and Browns Books for Students), Bibliotheca CloudLibrary, Odilo and Califa’s Enki.     Complete list of poems included in this volume: Rebel Verse Know Hey, Daydreamer Mandatory Vacation Dust Storms May Exist Woody Living Lyrics Orion Taking a Trip on the Mother Road A New Day Stars What’s in a Hat? For My Favorite Hobo Resting on my Laurels To My Favorite Protest Singer Wandering Stars Offerings Buried Treasure Disarmed Terms of Endearment Reunion How Here This Isn’t Rays of Hope Afflatus Read the Signs Mind Blown Dancing A Single Heart Bibliophile There is Always Good News Solidarity Salutes Metaphor Clear-headed Underwater Back Catalogue Upward Spirals Why D.L.? That which the Realtor cannot Itemize To the Tenth Generation My Soul’s Citizenship The Storm Shall Pass The Missing The Lottery of Birth I’m Tired of Waking Up in 1933! Why??? In These Times The Time Has Come Xennial Luddite Occupational Hazards Fascinations Firestorm Secondary Sorrows Inevitably of Existence Performance Anxiety It Ain’t What it Seems Highway Snobbery In Times of Action What 3 Words? Delayed Response State of the Poet Pain Relief Fame The Gallows of Public Opinion The River Beliefs Visions Vallejo, California Charlottesville Ancestral Honor Millennium Vision Unbound Little Watercraft Dreaming of Better Days Elegant Stag Players Ignite Listen! What A Gift You Have Given Me! Use Elevator to Exit Reality Wrapping It Up For Newman Train Whistle Polka Love Poetry Capital Blockade Benicia Bound Libraries Ignite Universes

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