Light From The Left

About the Book

In Light from the Left, poet and neuroscientist Judith Lauter discovers a Rembrandt both familiar and far different from the one we are accustomed to. He is recognizably the massively talented artist of religious and secular masterpieces that have made him renowned throughout the world, a figure virtually synonymous with "great painter." But these poems also locate a new Rembrandt, a compassionate, subtle, and slyly subversive political thinker and observer of the human condition, who views the world from a unique perspective. After reading this book, you may never look at a Rembrandt painting in quite the same way again.

About the Author

Judith Lauter was born in Austin, Texas. When she was nine, her family moved to Michigan where she later met her husband, the poet Ken Lauter, in a poetry-writing seminar at the University of Michigan taught by Donald Hall (US Poet Laureate, 2006-7). The couple has subsequently lived in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, and now make their home in Nacogdoches TX. Judith holds a BA in English literature, three master's degrees (creative writing, information science, and linguistics), and a PhD in communication sciences (Washington University in St. Louis). She taught and directed human neuroscience laboratories at major universities for more than three decades, before retiring in 2012 and returning to her first love, poetry. In addition to scientific articles, chapters, and books (including How is Your Brain Like a Zebra? Xlibris, 2008, www.zebrabrain.com), she has published poems in a number of journals, and won two Hopwood Awards for poetry (University of Michigan), an Academy of American Poets prize (University of Denver), and the Norma Lowry Memorial Prize (Washington University). She has two previous books of poetry with Xlibris, both 2013: A Year of Haiku, and Light from the Left; poems on paintings by Rembrandt (www.LightFromTheLeft.com).