Amber Coverdale Sumrall, Author, Cris Mazza, Author, Dorianne Laux, Author Crossing Press $14.95 (413p) ISBN 978-0-89594-654-6
In this companion to Love's Shadow: Writings by Women , editor and poet Sumrall has brought together 63 short stories and poems which address in some way the different stages surrounding the dissolution of relationships. These voices, all of which...
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Dorianne Laux, Author . Norton $23.95 (95p) ISBN 978-0-393-06096-6
Laux's fluent and likable first person shoots straight on sex, relationships and American adulthood in this substantial and unusually various fourth collection. The Oregon poet opens with a funny, compassionate political poem about urban mass...
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Dorianne Laux, Author BOA Editions $20 (65p) ISBN 978-1-880238-85-1
It is not surprising that each of Laux's and Addonizio's third collections of poems are being published in close proximity by the same house. In 1997 the pair coauthored The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (Norton); both
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Dorianne Laux, Author BOA Editions $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-918526-76-2
In her first book of poems, Laux's writing is at its most potent when she deals simply and bluntly with the vicissitudes of growing up and getting old. The almost matter-of-fact tone of ``What My Father Told Me'' and ``Two Pictures of My Sister''...
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Dorianne Laux. Norton, $26.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-393-65233-8
Featuring selections from five books augmented by 20 new poems, this generous volume from Laux (The Book of Men) reads something like a life story: notably, one that begins with familial fear, incest, and abuse. Travelling through confusion, adult...
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Dorianne Laux. Norton, $17.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-324-05066-7
Poet Laux (Only as the Day Is Long) sets forth an edifying meditation on the craft of poetry. Each chapter highlights a literary technique used by a well-known author and provides exercises helping readers incorporate them into their own work. For...
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Dorianne Laux. Norton, $26.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-324-06582-1
With this spellbinding seventh collection, Laux (Only as the Day Is Long) brings to life the simple pleasures and small agonies of human existence. Many of the poems are odes praising a host of conveniences and delights—salt, WD-40, French toast....
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