Resonant with Lyric is a long poem in the tradition of Allen Ginsberg's Howl. It's about coming of age, about identity and place in the world, about the landscape and nation of Canada, about relationship to others and to posterity, about family history and past trauma, about concerns for the present and the future – all of these things and more. It is, in the end, about the struggle to be human in a particular time and place.
Jerry Prager is the author of three volumes on the Calabrian mafia of Guelph, Legends of the Morgeti; several books of poetry, is currently working on a series on fugitive slaves and how they came to Wellington County, the first and second of which books: Laying the Bed: the Native Origins of the Underground Railroad, and Exodus and Arrival: Fugitive Roads to Guelph and Beyond have already been published, The third book, Blood in the Mortar: Freedom and Stone is slated for publication in the spring of 2018. He is also preparing the first six books of a novel series.