(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 13, 2022 ) Denver, CO – Outskirts Press—the fastest-growing, full-service self-publishing and book marketing company—is pleased to announce the release of Redemption Will Come As a Song (New and Selected Poetry and Prose), an anthology by Lawrence Grieco, spanning a half century of writing, including a number of autobiographical sketches in prose and five short, short stories.

This book has a little of everything, and all the styles of poetry and prose relate to and complement each other, to make, in the end, a whole statement about the author’s life and development as a writer and as a human being. Readers will find romance, baseball, anthropology—sometimes all three at once—and more. His poetry is easy to read, but often has a deeper, underlying meaning, waiting for the perceptive reader to discover it. With a whimsical interplay of words and ideas just for the sheer joy of it, his poetry is subject to three rules: Make people laugh, make people cry, and make people want to write poems themselves. The autobiographical sketches in prose chronicle the author’s seven-plus decades of life yet defy chronology—“unstuck in time,” much like Kurt Vonnegut’s character Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five. The short stories at the end are playful flash fiction.

Redemption Will Come As a Song should be on the shelf in every public library in America. Because of its anthology format, it would also be a valuable tool in creative writing courses in secondary and higher education. And, finally, its format lends itself to book clubs and discussion groups, offering poetry, biography and short fiction all-in-one.

“A breeding ground for wry grins, outright guffaws and reflective musings, Lawrence Grieco’s latest collection of new poems, old poems, sketches in prose and short stories is a happy find for both loyal fans and new readers.” —Janet Dann, Author of The Good Neighbors Series

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At 224 pages, Redemption Will Come As a Song is available online through Outskirts Press. It is also sold through Amazon and Barnes and Noble for a maximum trade discount in quantities of 10 or more and is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the poetry and biography categories.

ISBN: 978-1-9772-2599-3 Format: 6 x 9 paperback Retail: $17.95 eBook: $5.00

Genre: POETRY / BIOGRAPHY

About the Author: Lawrence Grieco is a retired librarian who has been writing poetry for most of his life. Redemption Will Come As a Song is his second book. During his career, he wrote a regular blog on the American Library Association’s Programming Librarian website, and has been a columnist for the last twenty years in the Weekly Register-Call, a small, rural newspaper in Black Hawk, Colorado (the source of many of the autobiographical sketches found in Part Three.) He graduated from the State University of NY at Buffalo with a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s in Library Science, and studied Anthropology in graduate school at the University of Colorado. In 1970, he was a VISTA volunteer on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Mr. Grieco lives just outside of Denver.

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