Dog Dreams

These poems span three decades, from 1987 through 2018, imagining the correspondence of some things with others.

This book could not exist without the poem Buen Perro. Buen Perro, succeeded as part of an illustrated poetry-print series widely distributed between 1997 and 2001 in Argentina, Chile, Spain, and Uruguay, culminating in publication by El Diario del Fin del Mundo, in Ushuaia, Argentina.

Two other poems—Winter Exonerates this World, and Along the Journey Toward the Destination: Points Unexpectedly Known—were published in Spanish and English, in 1997, by the University of South Carolina. English versions grace this book.

An omitted poem, The Will to Live, earned Lawrence H. Fisher the description of “great communicator for his generation” in the anthology, A Generation Defining Itself, ISBN 0-9654136-3-2; that stand-alone accomplishment should forever remain by itself. Likewise, Luminescence, received the Poetic Justice Prize awarded by the Pennsylvania Bar Association in 2002.

Between 2006 and 2011, Lawrence H. Fisher wrote and published the New York Times Bestseller, Memoir of a Milk Carton Kid, a true crime story. After that, he authored and published another true crime story, in 2014, Victim of the System. Even Victim of the System included a poem....