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Book Cover for: Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, Dorianne Laux

Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems

Dorianne Laux

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Finalist:Pulitzer Prize -Poetry (2020)

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).

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: May 12nd, 2020
  • Pages: 176
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 0.50in - 0.30lb
  • EAN: 9780393358193
  • Categories: • Women Authors• American - General

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About the Author

Laux, Dorianne: - Dorianne Laux's poetry collections include Only as the Day Is Long, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Book of Men, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize; and Facts about the Moon, winner of the Oregon Book Award. She is the coauthor of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. A founding faculty member of Pacific University's Low Residency MFA Program, she lives in Richmond, California.

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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
One of our most daring contemporary poets.... Only as the Day Is Long gives us Laux's lyric powers evolving over the course of her career.--Diana Whitney "San Francisco Chronicle"
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 "Vulture"
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 "The Millions"
[I've] been savoring Dorianne Laux's Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems.... [I]was blown away by the newer poems about her mother in particular. You may want this book on your bedside table this summer, too. I know it will stay on mine--with a pen close by.--Maggie Smith "Kenyon Review"
The ability to write accessible poetry is proof that Laux is an expert. She captures human sentiment and weaves emotions into multisensory landscapes with accurate details. Rich with detailed, layered poems, Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems is a collection of Laux's finest.... A necessary addition to a home library.--Andrew Jarvis "New York Journal of Books"
When Laux welcomes readers into a personal moment, she speaks for humankind.... This is a catalogue of honest work, from beginning to end.-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
Dorianne Laux's Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems gifts the reader with a foundation that bears the true weight of life and death. Each trope rises out of lived feeling?everyday rituals bend toward the sacred as beauty peers through a pure, honest language. Here, at the heart of mastery, is an American voice paying dues through tribute. These poems dare to sing and cross borders, in step with the natural and universal.--Yusef Komunyakaa, author of The Emperor of Water Clocks

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