What We Carry by Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry includes poems of survival, poems of healing, poems of affirmation and poems of celebration. Sculptured, fluid and generous, they reveal a poet whose vision is informed by experience and caring. Of her poetry and poetic odyssey, critic William O'Daly writes: It seems that Ms. Laux has chosen to witness what she must on her journey, in some way reliving and weaving together who she was and who she is to fully reclaim her body and soul . The poems seem to have been well prepared for, born of years of hard work, careful listening, patience, until all the notes rang true. That attention to precision of image, language and sound, that pursuit of honesty and love is What We Carry - our lives, worth having, and worth transforming.
First published in 1990, Awake marked the stunning debut of poet DORIANNE LAUX. She has since published three other collections: What We Carry (1994), which was a finalist for the National Book critics Circle Award, Smoke (2000), and Facts About the Moon (2005), which won the Oregon Book Award, selected by Ai, and was short-listed for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. The recipient of an Editor's Choice III Award, two Best American Poetry prizes, and two Pushcart prizes, Laux is also the coauthor, with Kim Addonizio, of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and she is among the poets to earn a place in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. In 2001 she was invited by the late poet laureate Stanley Kunitz to read at the Library of Congress.
Born in Augusta, Maine, Laux moved to northern California in 1983 and subsequently graduated from Mills College, in Oakland, with a BA in English. She has waited tables and written poetry in San Diego, Los Angeles, Berkley, and Petaluma, California, and in Juneau, Alaska, and her poems have been translated into French, Italian, Korean, Romanian, and Brazilian Portuguese. Among her many honors are two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1994 she settled in Eugene, Oregon, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Oregon. She lives in Eugene with her husband, poet Joseph Millar.
Born in Augusta, Maine, Laux moved to northern California in 1983 and subsequently graduated from Mills College, in Oakland, with a BA in English. She has waited tables and written poetry in San Diego, Los Angeles, Berkley, and Petaluma, California, and in Juneau, Alaska, and her poems have been translated into French, Italian, Korean, Romanian, and Brazilian Portuguese. Among her many honors are two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1994 she settled in Eugene, Oregon, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Oregon. She lives in Eugene with her husband, poet Joseph Millar.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781880238073 |
| ISBN 10 | 1880238071 |
| Title | What We Carry |
| Author | Dorianne Laux |
| Series | American Poets Continuum |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | BOA Editions, Limited |
| Year published | 1994-07-14 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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