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American Poets Continuum #0028: What We Carry

by Dorianne Laux

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ISBN13: 9781880238073
ISBN10: 1880238071
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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.
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Mead, January 13, 2008 (view all comments by Mead)
This is a marvelous, quietly revelatory writer. One of the most unassuming poems in this volume, "Dust," broke my heart.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781880238073
Author:
Laux, Dorianne
Publisher:
BOA Editions
Location:
Brockport, NY :
Subject:
American
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
General Poetry
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
American poets continuum series ;
Series Volume:
0028
Publication Date:
June 1994
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
80
Dimensions:
904x606x38 29
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