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Dorianne Laux
Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry
Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux returns with an insightful, compassionate, and spirited volume that celebrates the imperfect miracle of humanity.
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An illuminating book of concise craft essays and exercises for poets, from Pulitzer Prize finalist and The Poet's Companion coauthor Dorianne Laux.
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The Book of Men finds Laux at her best. She’s witty, engaging, and candid… . Echoes of Whitman are everywhere in The Book of Men. Both Whitman and Laux are…
Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today. Philip Levine
Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today. –Philip Levine
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Dorianne Laux’s For the Sake of Strangers, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
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Ms Dorianne Laux
Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Dorianne Laux’s poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts…
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Dorianne Laux (North Carolina State University)
A collection of new and selected works from a prize-winning poet known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian.
Geffrey Davis
Dorianne Laux calls this Poulin Prize-winning debut collection one of the best first books I’ve read in a while… spell-binding.
The work of the fifty writers represented here provides the best perspective available on the continuing vitality of poetry as it is being practiced today.
Kim Addonizio
From the nuts and bolts of craft to the sources of inspiration, this book is for anyone who wants to write poetry-and do it well.
A reissuing of Awake, the debut collection of poetry by Dorianne Laux
A groundbreaking anthology of well-known female poets that broadens traditional notions of erotic poetry.
