Dorianne Laux

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Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux’s Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems is available from W. W. Norton, as are her award-winning books Facts about the Moon and The Book of Men. A textbook, Finger Exercises for Poets, is forthcoming as well as a new book of poems, Life on Earth. She is founding faculty at Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA Program.

These Visitations

November 2023
Brian Turner, Dorianne Laux
Photo by Bowonpat - stock.adobe.comIf a love song is made of water, the water you hold in your hands right now is a lyric, a song inside the rusty tap released, coil of silvered music unraveling, shiv…
Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems by Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux
New York. W. W. Norton. 2019. 128 pages. This newest collection by Dorianne Laux includes selections from her five previous books of poetry and thirty-two pages of new poetry, some of her best to date…
Waitress

November 2013
Dorianne Laux
When I was young and had to rise at 5 a.m.I did not look at the lamplight slicingthrough the blinds and say: Once againI have survived the night. I did not raisemy two hands to my face and whisper:Thi…