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Her new book Only As the Day is Long: New & Selected is a heart-breaking collection of poems that will force you to remember your own old loves, first wounds, jobs in which you struggled or thrived, the complex relationship with family, with class, the mother figure, and through it all you’ll remember what fierceness feels like in the bones ...
Only as the Day Is Long. Dorianne Laux. 1952 –. Soon she will be no more than a passing thought, a pang, a timpani of wind in the chimes, bent spoons. hung from the eaves on a first night in a new house. on a street where no dog sings, no cat visits. a neighbor cat in the middle of the street, winding. and rubbing fur against fur, throwing ...
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15 janv. 2019 · Only as the Day Is Long represents a brilliant, daring body of work from one of our boldest contemporary poets, known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian.
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25 oct. 2020 · In Only as the Day Is Long: New Poems, Laux examines the death of her mother and how Laux still processes the complicated emotions arising from that grief. The section relies on form, which signals a need for structure to contain the speaker’s still raw emotions. Laux works not only with the sonnet here, but she also writes a ...
3 janv. 2020 · When we say someone is honest/happy/hard-working “as the day is long,” we emphasize their positive qualities, suggesting their goodness is akin to the brightness of a seemingly endless summer’s day. But Laux’s addition of “only” turns the cliché on its head.
Earthy and lyrical, Only as the Day Is Long draws from Dorianne Laux’s five expansive, award-winning volumes and includes twenty new odes that pay homage to the poet’s mother.
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