Dorianne Laux teaches poetry at North Carolina State University and Pacific University. A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and a recipient of the Oregon Book Award and the Paterson Prize, Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
"A prodigious imagination that somehow manages to sift through the
ordinary, quotidian, and squalid realities of our world, to produce
moments of grace and shimmering beauty, and empathetic
illumination. Dorianne Laux is a national treasure, a poet of
immense insight and masterful craft…Only as the Day Is Long is a
tour de force, a work of striking beauty and humanity—a work for
its own time."
*Kwame Dawes, author of City of Bones: A Testament*
"Throughout the years and throughout her five books Dorianne Laux
has not faltered. She has wrestled with the angels and with the
serpents, eros and thanatos are wrestling still, and the sound they
make is the sound of this woman singing."
*Marie Howe, author of Magdalene*
"Dorianne Laux’s Only The Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems gifts
the reader with a foundation that bears the true weight of life and
death. Each trope rises out of lived feeling—everyday rituals bend
toward the sacred as beauty peers through a pure, honest language.
Here, at the heart of mastery, is an American voice paying dues
through tribute. These poems dare to sing and cross borders, in
step with the natural and universal."
*Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Emperor of Water Clocks*
"Another splendid new one by one of our best, who never stops
paying attention, and is never unwilling, and summons from her
readers unwavering trust."
*Mark Doty, author of Deep Lane*
"In a vast ocean of too-much-to-read out there, I can always find
an island of sanity in Laux’s work, and within individual poems,
always, always spots of light and breath and truth."
*Lia Purpura, author of It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful*
"Dorianne Laux is one of those poets I turn to again and again for
cradling beauty and darkness so close together in a poem."
*Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Oceanic*
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