Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems
Dorianne Laux
(Author)
Description
Earthy and lyrical, Only as the Day Is Long draws from Dorianne Laux's five expansive, award-winning volumes and includes twenty new odes that pay homage to the poet's mother. Exploring experiences of survival and healing, of sexual love and celebration, Only as the Day Is Long represents a bold and brilliant body of work from a "poet of immense insight and masterful craft" (Kwame Dawes).
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
May 12, 2020
Pages
176
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.2 X 0.5 inches | 0.3 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393358193
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About the Author
Dorianne Laux teaches poetry in the Program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University and is a founding faculty member of Pacific University's Low Residency MFA Program. A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and a recipient of the Paterson Prize, she lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Reviews
When Laux welcomes readers into a personal moment, she speaks for humankind.... This is a catalogue of honest work, from beginning to end.
Dorianne Laux is one of those poets I turn to again and again for cradling beauty and darkness so close together in a poem.--Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Oceanic
Another splendid new one by one of our best, who never stops paying attention, and is never unwilling, and summons from her readers unwavering trust.--Mark Doty, author of Deep Lane
Throughout the years and throughout her five books Dorianne Laux has not faltered. She has wrestled with the angels and with the serpents; Eros and Thanatos are wrestling still, and the sound they make is the sound of this woman singing.--Marie Howe, author of Magdalene
Beyond her admirable tenacity and spirit, Laux is just plain wise--and refreshingly unpretentious in her wisdom.... Laux's new poems arrive at the end of the collection as a perfect finale.--Jonathan Russell Clark
Laux is majestic.... Her selected poems are gorgeous to revisit, but these new pieces are symphonic--and they become a perfect coda of grief.--Nick Ripatrazone
Dorianne Laux is one of those poets I turn to again and again for cradling beauty and darkness so close together in a poem.--Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Oceanic
Another splendid new one by one of our best, who never stops paying attention, and is never unwilling, and summons from her readers unwavering trust.--Mark Doty, author of Deep Lane
Throughout the years and throughout her five books Dorianne Laux has not faltered. She has wrestled with the angels and with the serpents; Eros and Thanatos are wrestling still, and the sound they make is the sound of this woman singing.--Marie Howe, author of Magdalene
Beyond her admirable tenacity and spirit, Laux is just plain wise--and refreshingly unpretentious in her wisdom.... Laux's new poems arrive at the end of the collection as a perfect finale.--Jonathan Russell Clark
Laux is majestic.... Her selected poems are gorgeous to revisit, but these new pieces are symphonic--and they become a perfect coda of grief.--Nick Ripatrazone
