Only as the Day Is Long represents a brilliant and bold collection of works from one of the bravest contemporary poets, known for her empathy and stark testimony to everyday life. It consists of poems drawn from the five extensive volumes by Dorianne Laux, including her confident debut Awake and the award-winning with the Paterson Prize The Book of Men. The poems in this collection have been "brought to the hard edge of meaning" and are praised for their "tireless precision and beauty." Twenty new odes pay tribute to Laux's mother, an ordinary and extraordinary woman of the Great Depression era. The richness of her life experience finds expression in earthy and lyrical portrayals of America's working class, filled with the grit and turmoil of real life. From the first poem "Two Pictures of My Sister" to the last "Letter to My Dead Mother," she writes with a clear honesty that is radiant in its particularity and universal in its resonance. Exploring experiences of survival and healing, romantic love and celebration, Only as the Day Is Long shows Laux at the peak of her power.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Dorianne Laux
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- New and Selected Poems
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 176
- Publication Date
- 2020
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780393358193
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