These are poems of honesty and vision. They speak of the realities of existence, realities that are hard, tough, shocking in some instances, and yet through which can be gleaned beauty.
Bruce Laxalt was born and raised in Reno, Nevada, living two years as a child in southern France. He attended Stanford University, obtaining a degree in philosophy in 1973 and studying creative writing under Albert J. Guerard. After graduating from Stanford Law School in 1976, he worked as a lawyer with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., for a year. He returned to Nevada, where he has practiced law since, first as a homicide prosecutor, and later as a civil litigator.
