What We Wish We Knew

Michael Larson's premiere collection of poetry explores the life lessons resonating in halls of memory, in private quarters of joy and grief, and in soaring cathedrals of faith. In the fleeting, flickering age of communication, What We Wish We Knew reaffirms the artist's reliance on communion, the shared experience of lucid moments that serve both to question and to comfort.

Readers will recognize their own mortality, their own doubts and fears, their own unsteady steps toward enlightenment, and their own moments of revelation and reassurance. While Larson is haunted by his particular wraiths and informed by his Catholicism, by his north country upbringing, and by his probing intellect, his poetic offerings are easily acknowledged as unique and courageous takes on humankind's shared experience.