What We Carry
1st Edition
Published on 20. December 2013
80 pages
978-1-938160-37-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 Carry includes poems of survival, poems of healing, poems of affirmation and poems of celebration.
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What We Carry
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07/1994
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Person
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 MacDowell Colony and the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, she teaches creative writing at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.
Content
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- What We Carry
- Late October
- Dust
- If this Is Paradise
- What Could Happen
- After Twelve Days of Rain
- Aphasia
- Graveyard at Hurd's Gulch
- What We Carry
- The Job
- For the Sake of Strangers
- What I Wouldn't Do
- Singing Back the World
- Balance
- Small Gods
- For My Daughter Who Loves Animals
- Planning the Future
- Finding What's Lost
- Homecoming
- The Aqueduct
- Graffiti
- Twelve
- Matinee
- The Ebony Chickering
- Small Gods
- Family Reunion
- Each Sound
- As It Is
- As It Is
- Fast Gas
- The Thief
- Landrum's Diner, Reno
- Sunday Radio
- Enough Music
- Kaleidoscope
- This Close
- Afterwards
- 2AM
- The Lovers
- Kissing
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
