What Were You Thinking: Essays 2006-2024

Author: Hank Lazer

Publisher: Lavender Ink (2025)

Twenty years of essays (2006-2024) on contemporary poetry and poetics exploring spirituality, ethics, and international perspectives through talks and exchanges in China and Cuba, with interviews exploring Lazer’s innovative poetry and poetics. This is the first collection of Lazer’s essays since Lyric & Spirit (2008).  What Were You Thinking is a companion volume to the simultaneous publication of Abundant Life: New & Selected Poems (Chax Press, 2025).