Revising the Storm (A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America) by Geffrey Davis, DorianneLaux Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2014 by Boa Editions Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-938160-28-8, ISBN: 1-938160-28-2
"This debut collection by Cave Canem fellow Geffrey Davis burrows under the surface of gender, addiction, recovery, clumsy love, bitterness, and faith. The tones exploredtender, comic, wry, tragicinterrogate male subjectivity and privilege, as they examine their "embarrassed desires" for familial connection, sexual love, compassion, and repair. Revising the Storm also speaks to the sons and daughters affected by the drug/crack epidemic o ..."
Facts About the Moon(1st Edition) Poems by DorianneLaux Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32962-9, ISBN: 0-393-32962-3
""Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today."—Philip Levine In her powerful fourth collection, Dorianne Laux once again strikes fire from neighborhood moments: a quiet street at dusk, a pool hall, a bare tree. Focusing on the grace of working people, she captures the pain and beauty of women in all their variety, caught in the "lunar pull" of our time."
The Book of Men(1st Edition) Poems by DorianneLaux Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2012 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34265-9, ISBN: 0-393-34265-4
"“Dorianne Laux dares to parse her life through the prism of men who’ve passed through it.” ―New York TimesDorianne Laux’s fifth collection of poetry peels back time to the summer of love and the Vietnam War. Her keen hindsight uncovers the humanity at the center of conflict with language that goes straight to the heart. This work stands as an elegy for the loss of innocence, an homage to the glimmer underneath the urban grunge, and a lo ..."
Smoke (American Poets Continuum: 62) by DorianneLaux, Max Brallier Paperback, 65 Pages, Published 2000 by Boa Editions Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-880238-86-8, ISBN: 1-880238-86-1
"Dorianne Laux's long-awaited third book of poetry follows her collection, "What We Carry," a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. In "Smoke," Laux revisits familiar themes of family, working class lives and the pleasures of the body in poetry that is vital and artfully crafted--poetry that "gets hard in the face of aloofness," in the words of one reviewer. In "Smoke," as in her previous work, Laux weaves ..."
What We Carry (American Poets Continuum) by DorianneLaux Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1994 by Boa Editions Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-880238-07-3, ISBN: 1-880238-07-1
"Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry includes poems of survival, poems of healing, poems of affirmation and poems of celebration. Sculptured, fluid and generous, they reveal a poet whose vision is informed by experience and caring. Of her poetry and poetic odyssey, critic William O'Daly writes: "It seems that Ms. Laux has chosen to w ..."
Best New Poets 2014 50 Poems from Emerging Writers by DorianneLaux, Jazzy Danziger Paperback, 114 Pages, Published 2015 by Samovar Press/Meridian ISBN-13: 978-0-9766296-9-6, ISBN: 0-9766296-9-0
"Entering its ninth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. The poems included in this eclectic sampling represent the best from the many that have been nominated by the country’s top literary magazines and writi ..."
Only As the Day Is Long(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems by DorianneLaux Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-65233-8, ISBN: 0-393-65233-5
"A collection of new and selected works from a prize-winning poet known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian.Only as the Day Is Long represents a brilliant, daring body of work from one of our boldest contemporary poets, known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian. Drawn from Dorianne Laux’s five expansive volumes, including her confident debut Awake, National Book Critics Circle Finalist What ..."
Awake(1st Edition) (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry) by DorianneLaux, Philip Levine Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2013 by Carnegie Mellon ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-573-2, ISBN: 0-88748-573-1
"Awake, Dorianne Laux's first book of poetry, is introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine for a reason: It's a near-perfect, emotionally haunting book--one which follows a narrative trajectory that touches upon the speaker's ability to endure the cruelties of parental abuse, and maturation into womanhood, alongside the joy's of noticing everyday details and using the imagination and a fearless poetic voice ..."
The Book of Men(1st Edition) Poems by DorianneLaux Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-07955-5, ISBN: 0-393-07955-4
""Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today."—Philip LevineThe narrative poems in Dorianne Laux's fifth collection charge through the summer of love, where Vietnam casts a long shadow, and into the present day, where she compassionately paints the smoky bars, graffiti, and addiction of urban life. Laux is "continually engaging and, at her best, luminous" (San Diego Union-Tribune). ..."
Smoke by DorianneLaux, Dan Vyleta Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2000 by Boa Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-385-54154-1, ISBN: 0-385-54154-6
Only as the Day Is Long New and Selected Poems by DorianneLaux 128 Pages, Published 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-65234-5, ISBN: 0-393-65234-3
"Drawn from Dorianne Laux’s five expansive volumes, including her confident debut Awake, National Book Critics Circle Finalist What We Carry, and Paterson Prize–winning The Book of Men, the poems in this collection have been "brought to ..."
"My special thanks to the Heart's Desire Poetry Gang: Christina, Laurie and Ron,
and especially Kim, who sings when I can't, the two Janes, Judy, Geri, the two
Mollys, Jeanne, Joyce, the two Steves and V, Brenda, Patricia, Stefanie. Grateful
..."
"At a time when economic inequality is on all of our minds, this collection of nonfiction and poetry from accomplished American writers focuses on intimate moments, personal relationships, and common daily experiences at the intersection of people of different economic status."
The Book of Men Poems by DorianneLaux 96 Pages, Published 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-08091-9, ISBN: 0-393-08091-9
"Into Great Silence (Die Große Stille) is a documentary film directed by Philip
Gröning that was first released in 2005. ... “Mine Own Phil Levine” is closely
patterned after W. S. Merwin's poem “Berryman” and the title is taken from Philip
Levine's ..."
The Poet's Companion A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry by Kim Addonizio, DorianneLaux Digital, 288 Pages, Published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34088-4, ISBN: 0-393-34088-0
"CD-ROMs: The Norton Poetry Workshop. Edited by ... Thirty poems common to
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fourth Edition, and The Norton Introduction to
Poetry, Sixth Edition, are explored in-depth, and supported by contextual
materials such as video, audio, manuscripts, photographs, and paintings.
Norton's ... A timeline, ''Beat family tree,'' works of art by Kerouac himself, and ''A
Jack Kerouac Sampler'' of nearly thirty minutes ..."
Awake (Lynx House Book) by DorianneLaux, Foreword-Philip Levine Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2007 by Carnegie Mellon University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59766-030-3, ISBN: 1-59766-030-2
"First published in 1990 and now back in print, this much sought-after collection marked the stunning debut of poet Dorianne Laux. Awake chronicles Laux's coming to terms with a childhood darkened by violence and sexual abuse--a struggle at once to embrace and to forgive the past."
What We Carry Poems (American Poets Continuum Series,) by DorianneLaux Hardcover, 71 Pages, Published 1994 by Boa Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-880238-06-6, ISBN: 1-880238-06-3
New Poets of America Ser. Awake No. 12 by DorianneLaux Hardcover, 63 Pages, Published 1990 by Boa Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-918526-76-2, ISBN: 0-918526-76-0