{"title":"Dorianne Laux","description":"\u003cp\u003eDorianne Laux's work delves into the intimate complexities of human experience with a lyrical precision that is both striking and accessible. Her poetry explores themes of love, loss, and the everyday moments that shape our lives, inviting readers to find beauty in the ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e tradition, Laux's collections, such as \u003cem\u003eLife on Earth\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Men\u003c\/em\u003e, offer a candid and compassionate perspective on relationships and identity. Her voice resonates with quiet strength, making her work a compelling choice for those seeking profound emotional insight.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"life-on-earth-by-dorianne-laux-9781324110354","title":"Life on Earth","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us, and appreciate us fully as the flawed humans we are. \u003cem\u003eLife on Earth\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of praise for our planet and ourselves, delivered with Laux's trademark vitality, frank observation, and earthy wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith odes to the unlikely and elemental—salt, snow, crows, cups, Bisquick, a shovel and rake, the ubiquitous can of WD-40, \"the way \/ it releases the caught cogs \/ of the world\"—\u003cem\u003eLife on Earth\u003c\/em\u003e urges us all to find extraordinary magic in the mess of ordinary life. \"One of our most daring contemporary poets\" (Diana Whitney, \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e), Laux balances wonder at the night sky and the taste of a ripe peach with recognition of the sharp knife of mortality. The volume includes powerful homages to the poet's mother and her carpenter's spirit, reflections on loss and aging, and encounters with the fleeting beauty of the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTranscending life's inevitable moments of pain and uncertainty, \u003cem\u003eLife on Earth\u003c\/em\u003e instructs us in our own endless possibilities and the astonishing riches of the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424726958316,"sku":"9781324110354","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781324110354.jpg?v=1774768322"},{"product_id":"the-book-of-men-by-dorianne-laux-9780393342659","title":"The Book of Men","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Book of Men\u003c\/em\u003e, Dorianne Laux's fifth collection of poetry, peels back time to the summer of love and the Vietnam War. Her keen hindsight uncovers the humanity at the centre of conflict with language that goes straight to the heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work stands as an elegy for the loss of innocence, an homage to the glimmer underneath the urban grunge, and a love song to the imperfections that unite and divide us. Laux possesses what Tony Hoagland calls \"the brave art of looking,\" with an immediate and compassionate touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471731409132,"sku":"9780393342659","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/96b514ecc2068fee25c9d9c46d645ebe.jpg?v=1775792072"},{"product_id":"only-as-the-day-is-long-by-dorianne-laux-9780393358193","title":"Only As the Day Is Long","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOnly as the Day Is Long\u003c\/i\u003e represents a brilliant, daring body of work from one of our boldest contemporary poets, known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian. Drawn from Dorianne Laux's five expansive volumes, including her confident debut \u003ci\u003eAwake\u003c\/i\u003e, National Book Critics Circle Finalist \u003ci\u003eWhat We Carry\u003c\/i\u003e, and Paterson Prize–winning \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Men\u003c\/i\u003e, the poems in this collection have been \"brought to the hard edge of meaning\" (B. H. Fairchild) and praised for their \"enormous precision and beauty\" (Philip Levine). Twenty new odes pay homage to Laux's mother, an ordinary and extraordinary woman of the Depression era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wealth of her life experience finds expression in Laux's earthy and lyrical depictions of working-class America, full of the dirt and mess of real life. From the opening poem, \"Two Pictures of My Sister,\" to the last, \"Letter to My Dead Mother,\" she writes, in her words, of \"living gristle\" with a perceptive frankness that is luminous in its specificity and universal in its appeal. Exploring experiences of survival and healing, of sexual love and celebration, \u003ci\u003eOnly as the Day Is Long\u003c\/i\u003e shows Laux at the height of her powers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47995490238700,"sku":"9780393358193","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780393358193-only-as-the-day-is-long.jpg?v=1784897024"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/dorianne-laux.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}