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Facts about the Moon: Poems
by Dorianne Laux
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ISBN13: 9780393060966 
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Powells.com Staff Pick
Philip Levine aptly characterizes Dorianne Laux's writing as "gritty,
tough, lyrical poems." In her newest book, Facts about the Moon, Laux
writes of young women learning to be alive in the world. In the wonderful
short poem "Moon in the Window," the speaker, refusing to romanticize her
childhood, writes "It took me years to grow a heart / from paper and
glue." Laux's poetry continually shows this tenacity to the real, to the
tactile, which allows her poems to beat with their own vibrant life.
Recommended by Crystal, Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
In her powerful fourth collection, Dorianne Laux once again strikes fire from neighborhood moments: a quiet street at dusk, a pool hall, a bare tree. Focusing on the grace of working people, she captures the pain and beauty of women in all their variety, caught in the "lunar pull" of our time.
Review:
"Laux's fluent and likable first person shoots straight on sex, relationships and American adulthood in this substantial and unusually various fourth collection. The Oregon poet opens with a funny, compassionate political poem about urban mass transit, segues to 'Vacation Sex' ('We've been at it all summer') and then to a meditation on the flag of Alaska, designed (as Laux explains) by a 13-year-old orphan 78 years ago. If she casts a wide net for subjects, Laux (Smoke) shows equal breadth with her free verse forms; the most accomplished tend to use long lines, and to digress, tersely and thoughtfully, from their narrative threads. Describing her marriage, her Western travels and her erotic history as girl and woman, Laux works in the idiom of Philip Levine and Sharon Olds, yet Laux's best verse is perhaps more surprising than theirs: if she occasionally sounds lugubrious, more often she makes 'new cells pungent with the old codes.' Laux has not invented a new style, but she has improved the one she has: 'It took me years to grow a heart,' Laux quips, 'from paper and glue'; her verse certainly draws on it." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Review:
"Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today." Philip Levine
Review:
"Dorianne Laux has a gift for finding the extraordinary within the ordinary. It's this ability that makes the West Coast poet's fourth and most recent collection, Facts About the Moon, so remarkable and moving." Kansas City Star
About the Author
Dorianne Laux lives in Eugene, Oregon, and teaches at the University of Oregon. She is coauthor with Kim Addonizio of The Poet's Companion.
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heather.edwards, April 23, 2007 (view all comments by heather.edwards)
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.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780393060966
- Subtitle:
- Poems
- Author:
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Subject:
- Women
- Subject:
- American - General
- Subject:
- Working class
- Publication Date:
- December 2005
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 95
- Dimensions:
- 8.36x5.82x.52 in. .54 lbs.
