Dorianne Laux
Autor von What We Carry (American Poets Continuum)
Über den Autor
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 mehr anzeigen Carolina. weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Dorianne Laux
Zugehörige Werke
In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop (1995) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 573 Exemplare
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing (2019) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Laux, Dorianne
- Geburtstag
- 1952-01-10
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Augusta, Maine, USA
- Wohnorte
- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Richmond, Californië, USA - Berufe
- dichter
docent - Beziehungen
- Millar, Joseph (echtg.)
- Organisationen
- North Carolina State University
Pacific University
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What an excellent and precise storyteller Dorianne Laux is. An infuriatingly good first collection. Particular favorites: "What My Father Told Me," "Quarter to Six," "On the Back Porch," "The Laundromat," "The Garden."
Glad to read someone who influenced my friends so deeply.
Moon in the Window
I wish I could say I was the kind of child
who watched the moon from her window,
would turn toward it and wonder.
I never wondered. I read. Dark signs
that crawled toward the edge of the page.
It took me years to grow a heart
from paper and glue. All I had
was a flashlight, bright as the moon,
a white hole blazing beneath the sheets.
I don't know how to review this? There is just so much good here. She dives into her own life and comes up with these beautiful words spilling out, and she just keeps reaching into her own chest, pulling them out, memory after memory, moment after moment, a life lived before our eyes in word and image. She writes about love and sex and it does not annoy me; it delights. That's almost the highest praise I can give to a poet. She loves books and language and it shows. She writes from a place of sorrow and brokenness and yet also boldness and joy and health. I am delighted to see she just had a retrospective collection come out (one of those 'new and selected poems' things), but I really do think I will also be gathering up all her poems, myself, just for me. Mine, mine, mine. All to keep. All to take out from time to time and savor again. All to tell you you really need these poems in your life, too.
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My copy of this book is littered with blue sticky notes. So many of Laux's poems speak to me even during these weeks of quarantine when my attention span quivers and fails. The Life of Trees, Little Magnolia, Cello, Tonight I Am in Love...I read them aloud over and over again.