Michael Lally

An autobiography (in sonnets) by Michael Lally, Poetry honors include: NYC 92nd St. Y Poetry Center's 1972 Discovery Award for The South Orange Sonnets; two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships (1974 and 1981, the second attacked in Congress--the NEA accused of rewarding "pornography" for the poem "My Life"--in the first attempt to defund the NEA); 1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for "Excellence in Literature" for Cant Be Wrong; 2000 American Book Award for It's Not Nostalgia. In 2018 Another Way To Play: Poems 1960-2017 published. Also worked as script writer/"doctor," editor, columnist, book reviewer for The Village Voice and The Washington Post among other publications, and TV and film actor (as Michael David Lally). Writes the blog Lally's Alley on poetry, politics, movies, and other arts.--Lally, Michael

Throughout the pages of The Cure for Smoking: How the Universal Law of Attraction Made Quitting Cold Turkey Easy author and motivator Michael Lally details, step by step, how to use the power of your mind along with the Universal Law of Attraction--Like Attracts Like--to regain your freedom from nicotine. There are no tricks, no traps, and no excuses. Michael Lally will show you how he was able to give up a thirty-year, forty-cigarette-a-day habit by changing his internal dialogue to use the Universal Law of Attraction to his advantage. If you are truly ready to stop smoking and are willing to positively commit to your own health and well-being, this book is the only ''tool'' you need to achieve your desire.

The collected works of a poet who bridges the rhythms and message of the beats, the disarming frankness of the New York School, and the fierce temerity of activist authors throughout the ages. From a '60s-era verse letter to John Coltrane to a 2017 examination of Life After Trump, Another Way to Play collects more than a half century of engaged, accessible, and deeply felt poetry from a writer both iconoclastic and embedded in the American tradition. In the vein of William Carlos Williams and Frank O'Hara, Lally eschews formality in favor of a colloquial idiom that pops straight from the page into the reader's synapses. This is the definitive collection of verse from a poet who has been around the world and back again: verse from the streets, from the the political arena, from Hollywood, from the depths of the underground, and from everywhere in between. Lally is not a poet of any one school or style, but a poet of his own inner promptings; whether casual, impassioned, or ironic, his words are unmistakably his own. Here is a poet who can hold two opposed ideas in mind simultaneously, and fuse them, with pathos and humor, into his own idiosyncratic verbal art. As Lally himself writes: "I suffered, I starved, and so did my kids, / I did what I did for poetry I thought /and I never sold out, and even when I did / nobody bought."

Michael Lally is excited by the power of truth...--The New Yorker