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4 ago 2015 · Only as the Day Is Long. Dorianne Laux. 1952 –. Soon she will be no more than a passing thought, a pang, a timpani of wind in the chimes, bent spoons. hung from the eaves on a first night in a new house. on a street where no dog sings, no cat visits. a neighbor cat in the middle of the street, winding. and rubbing fur against fur ...
Exploring experiences of survival and healing, sexual love and celebration, Only as the Day Is Long shows Laux at the height of her powers. Praise for Only As The Day Is Long : "Laux, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for her 1994 book “What We Carry,” shows us how to endure hardships without losing humanity and compassion.
Nov. 22, 2018. The title poem of Dorianne Laux’s forthcoming collection is a searing eulogy, a heart-rending kaddish whose compassion is tendered with an unblinking eye. It also happens to be a ...
25 ott 2020 · In Only as the Day Is Long: New Poems, Laux examines the death of her mother and how Laux still processes the complicated emotions arising from that grief. The section relies on form, which signals a need for structure to contain the speaker’s still raw emotions.
Earthy and lyrical, Only as the Day Is Long draws from Dorianne Laux’s five expansive, award-winning volumes and includes twenty new odes that pay homage to the poet’s mother. Exploring experiences of survival and healing, of sexual love and celebration, Only as the Day Is Long represents a bold and brilliant body of work from a “poet of ...
Finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry “Clear, compelling and insightful.” — Washington Post , Only As the Day Is Long, New and Selected Poems, Dorianne Laux, 9780393358193
3 gen 2020 · Poetry. Reviews. Both Reckoning and Embrace: Dorianne Laux’s Only As The Day Is Long. Jeri Theriault. January 3, 2020. Dorianne Laux’s new book, Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, traces a path of lifelong losses.
