the first modern poet i loved -- her first two books sent me spiraling through my ordinary life. i am an ordinary woman - the charmed product of a privileged childhood. but dorrianne laux, like the confessional poets before her, allowed the voyeur, the ordinary in all of us, to feel the horror and the awe of a life that must be survived. i was less taken with Smoke and am teeming with curiosity for this latest installment.
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