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Dorianne Laux
author profile
born
January 01, 1952
gender
female
place of birth
United States
genre
Poetry
about this author
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, DORIANNE LAUX’s fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award, chosen by Ai. It was also short-listed for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States and chosen by the Kansas City Star as a noteworthy book of 2005. Laux is also author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990) introduced by Philip Levine, recently reprinted by Eastern Washington University Press, What We Carry (1994) and Smoke (2000). Red Dragonfly Press will release Superman: The Chapbook in 2008. Co-author of The Poet's Companion, she’s the recipient of two Best American Poet...more
books by Dorianne Laux
combine editionsavg rating: 4.45 | 386 ratings | 9 distinct works
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What We Carry (American Poets Continuum) by Dorianne Laux (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.48 — 116 ratings — published 1994 2 editions |
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Facts About the Moon: Poems (Paperback) by Dorianne Laux (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.41 — 97 ratings — published 2007 2 editions |
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Smoke (American Poets Continuum: 62) by Dorianne Laux (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.36 — 87 ratings — published 2000 2 editions |
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Awake (New Poets of America) by Dorianne Laux (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.64 — 45 ratings — published 1990 3 editions |
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Superman: The Chapbook (Chapbook) by Dorianne Laux (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.60 — 15 ratings — published 2008 |
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Moon in the Window (Poetry)
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quotes by Dorianne Laux
"Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's."
— Dorianne Laux (The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry)
— Dorianne Laux (The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry)
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"Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others--not as information, or polemic, but as irreducible art."
— Dorianne Laux (The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry)
— Dorianne Laux (The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry)
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"That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it."
— Dorianne Laux
— Dorianne Laux
Dorianne's favorite quotes
"I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. "
— Sharon Olds
— Sharon Olds
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"look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you..."
— Colette
— Colette
"I am living. I remember you."
— Marie Howe
— Marie Howe
"One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen."
— Jane Hirshfield (Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry)
— Jane Hirshfield (Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry)
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Pacific University MFA Students, Alumni, and Faculty
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A group for students, alumni, and faculty in the Pacific University low-residency MFA In Writing program based in Forest Grove, Oregon.
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The Best As We Can Is No Wrong
"Life Living Death" Magaz!ne : NOTHING Wrong AT Here!
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¡ POETRY !
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No pretensions: just poetry.
Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to re...more
You Imagine
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Do you have a book inside you? Have you always wanted to write a book? Are you working on one? Come to discuss how to write not just any book, but a g...more
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This group is for Eckhart Tolle's, A New Earth. Join us for some fun conversation, thinking out loud about whatever comes to mind, and enlightening bo...more
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Who love to LOVE can joy with us. Who love to PLAY can joy with us. Who love to RELAX can joy with us. Who love our IDEA can joy with us.
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For fans of the SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC series written by Vicki Pettersson. If you love Joanna Archer and Zoe Archer then this is the place for you!!
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A group for readers and writers of MiPOesias Magazine.
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hi there, joe's angel-lady. i'm mending the heart your poems broke - one poem at a time. i started one this morning so i guess i ain't doing too bad and i can't wait to git my mits on yer chapbook (the first tattoo i ever got was the Superman symbol on my left shoulder when i turned 18 - i was something else back when..haha!). much aloha from the long-windedest bastard in the middle of the pacific.
Dorianne, I've added What We Carry, Facts About the Moon, Smoke, Awake and last but not least your book Superman: The Chapbook to my to-read list.
Oh god, yes. They will win, and we will go down fast.
Did you ever read Brazzaville Beach? Each chapter is
prefaced with the zero sum game.
The viral problem, Dorianne, will never leave because viruses replicate and change their versions far faster than man. So if this is as mathematicians call it a zero sum game then the viruses should in the final analysis eventually win.
hi there, joe's angel-lady. i'm mending the heart your poems broke - one poem at a time. i started one this morning so i guess i ain't doing too bad and i can't wait to git my mits on yer chapbook (the first tattoo i ever got was the Superman symbol on my left shoulder when i turned 18 - i was something else back when..haha!). much aloha from the long-windedest bastard in the middle of the pacific.
Dorianne, I've added What We Carry, Facts About the Moon, Smoke, Awake and last but not least your book Superman: The Chapbook to my to-read list.
Oh god, yes. They will win, and we will go down fast.Did you ever read Brazzaville Beach? Each chapter is
prefaced with the zero sum game.
The viral problem, Dorianne, will never leave because viruses replicate and change their versions far faster than man. So if this is as mathematicians call it a zero sum game then the viruses should in the final analysis eventually win.
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