Lonesome Love, Eric Jan Larsen's second book of poetry, is a collection of poems that explore race and equality, life lessons learned as a child and an adult, our moral compass, and the path forward. Time after time, the poems coalesce around social and personal injustice and social and personal responsibility. The development of character, then, is a theme that pervades the book because it is this quality that ultimately leads to self-respect and a concern for others.