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Books by Dorianne Laux
  | | Revising the Storm (A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America) by Geffrey Davis, Dorianne Laux 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 ..." |
 | | Only As the Day Is Long(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems by Dorianne Laux 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 ..." |
 | | The Book of Men(1st Edition) Poems by Dorianne Laux 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 ..." |
 | | The Book of Men(1st Edition) Poems by Dorianne Laux 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). ..." |
 | | Facts About the Moon(1st Edition) Poems by Dorianne Laux 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." |
 | | Smoke (American Poets Continuum: 62) by Dorianne Laux, 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 Dorianne Laux 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 Dorianne Laux, 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 ..." |
 | | Smoke by Dorianne Laux, Dan Vyleta Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2000 by Boa Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-385-54154-1, ISBN: 0-385-54154-6 |
 | | Awake(1st Edition) (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry) by Dorianne Laux, 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 ..." |
 | | Awake(1st Edition) (New Poets of America) by Dorianne Laux, Foreward Philip Levine Paperback, 63 Pages, Published 1990 by Boa Editions Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-0-918526-77-9, ISBN: 0-918526-77-9 "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 ..." |
 | | Only as the Day Is Long New and Selected Poems by Dorianne Laux 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 ..." |
 | | American Creative Writers on Class by Leslie Jamison, Matthea Harvey, Carolyne Wright, Rebecca Keith, Dorianne Laux, Caitlin Doyle, Sonya Huber Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2012 by Big Wonderful Press, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-937806-00-2, ISBN: 1-937806-00-6 "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 Dorianne Laux 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 ..." |
 | | Awake (Lynx House Book) by Dorianne Laux, 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 Dorianne Laux Hardcover, 71 Pages, Published 1994 by Boa Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-880238-06-6, ISBN: 1-880238-06-3 |
 | | Breaking up Is Hard to Do Stories by Women by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, Dorianne Laux, Cris Mazza, Kate Braverman, Lesléa Newman Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1994 by Crossing Press,U.S. ISBN-13: 978-0-89594-654-6, ISBN: 0-89594-654-8 |
 | | New Poets of America Ser. Awake No. 12 by Dorianne Laux Hardcover, 63 Pages, Published 1990 by Boa Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-918526-76-2, ISBN: 0-918526-76-0 |
 | | The Maverick Poets An Anthology by Steve Kowit, Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, Allen S. Ginsberg, Dorianne Laux, Raymond Carver, Wanda Coleman, Gregory Corso, L. Ferlinghetti, Austin Straus, Gary Synder, Simon Ortiz, Jana Harris, Karen Snow, Joanne Kyger, Et Al Paperback, 146 Pages, Published 1988 by Gorilla Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-9610454-2-5, ISBN: 0-9610454-2-6 "THIS NORTON CRITICAL EDITION OF ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S MOST IMPORTANT POEMS IS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE EDITION AVAILABLE. TO ASSIST STUDENTS WITH ELIOT'S DEEPLY ALLUSIVE WORK, THE EDITOR, MICHAELF NORTH, PROVIDES DETAILED EXPLANATORY ANNOTATIONS AS WELL AS ELIOT'S OWN NOTES, SOME OF WHICH REQUIRE ANNOTATIONS THEMSELVES. THE TEXT INCLUDED IS THAT OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (BONI * LIVERIGHT) WITH ELIOT'S NOTES APPEARING AT THE ..." |
 | | The Maverick Poets(1st Edition) An Anthology by Editor Steve Kowit, Billy Collins, Allen S. Ginsberg, Sharon Olds, Dorianne Laux, Jose Montoya, Frank Bidart, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gerald Locklin, Harold Norse, Gary Snyder, Collin Kowit Hardcover, 146 Pages, Published 1988 by Gorilla Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-9610454-3-2, ISBN: 0-9610454-3-4 |
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