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. Drawn from
Dorianne Laux's five expansive volumes, including her confident
debut Awake, National Book Critics Circle Finalist What We Carry
and Paterson Prize-winning The Book of Men, 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. The 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, Only as the Day Is Long shows Laux at the height of
her powers.
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