Dorianne Laux was born in 1952 in Augusta, Maine and is of Irish, French and Algonquin Indian heritage. In 1983 she moved to Berkeley, California where she began writing in earnest. Five years later she earned her B.A. degree in English from Mills College. Laux”s first book of poems, Awake, published by BOA Editions in 1990, was nominated for the San Francisco Bay Area Book Critics Award for Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in numerous American journals and anthologies. She has received poetry fellowships from the Mac Dowell Colony and the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, she teaches creative writing at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.
9 Ebooks by Dorianne Laux
Geffrey Davis: Revising the Storm
This debut collection by Cave Canem fellow Geffrey Davis burrows under the surface of gender, addiction, recovery, clumsy love, bitterness, and faith. The tones explored—tender, comic, wry, tragic—in …
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Dorianne Laux: What We Carry
Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. 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 C …
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Dorianne Laux: Smoke
Dorianne Laux’s long-awaited third book of poetry follows her collection, What We Carry, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. In Smoke, Laux revisits familiar themes …
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Dorianne Laux: The Book of Men: Poems
‘Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today.’—Philip Levine The narrative poems in Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection charge through the summer of …
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Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux: The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
From the nuts and bolts of craft to the sources of inspiration, this book is for anyone who wants to write poetry-and do it well. The Poet’s Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, …
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Dorianne Laux: Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems
Finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry “Clear, compelling and insightful.” —Washington Post Earthy and lyrical, Only as the Day Is Long draws from Dorianne Laux’s five expansive, award-winnin …
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Dorianne Laux: Finger Exercises for Poets
An illuminating book of concise craft essays and exercises for poets, from Pulitzer Prize finalist and The Poet’s Companion coauthor Dorianne Laux. From “a poet of immense insight and masterful craft …
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Dorianne Laux: Life on Earth: Poems
Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux returns with an insightful, compassionate, and spirited volume that celebrates the imperfect miracle of hu …
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D. S. Rhodes & Jenny Root: Bookstore Clerks & Significant Others
Fiction, poetry, prose, and illustration by fourteen Tsunami Books clerks and fourteen significant others. A retrospective, a showcase, and a thank you to the people who, for twenty-seven years, have …
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