SALT

New limited edition, signed chapbook

6" x 9" // Paperback
ISBN 13: 978-1-7358540-0-7
The Field Office, November 2020
Limited edition of 345 signed, handsewn copies

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Only As The Day Is Long

Finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

January 2019
Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-393-65233-8, 6.1 × 9.3 in / 128 pages
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#1 on Amazon's New Releases in American Literature
One of the 50 Must-Read Poetry Collections of 2019, Book Riot
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From the Publisher: 

A collection of new and selected works from a prize-winning poet known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian.

Drawing from five expansive volumes and including twenty new pieces, Only as the Day Is Long represents an astonishing, confident, and daring body of work from one of our most accomplished poets. Philip Levine praises Dorianne Laux for her poetry’s “enormous precision and beauty,” and B. H. Fairchild proclaims that her poems are “brought to the hard edge of meaning.” The new poems are odes to Laux’s mother, an extraordinary and ordinary woman of the Depression era. Exploring experiences of survival and healing, sexual love and celebration, Only as the Day Is Long shows Laux at the height of her powers.

Praise for Only As The Day Is Long: 

"Laux, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for her 1994 book “What We Carry,” shows us how to endure hardships without losing humanity and compassion. This timely, beautifully crafted collection wonderfully balances light and dark." — The Washington Post

“Another splendid new one by one of our best, who never stops paying attention, and is never unwilling, and summons from her readers unwavering trust.” —Mark Doty

“Dorianne Laux is one of those poets I turn to again and again for cradling beauty and darkness so close together in a poem.” — Aimee Nezhukumatathil

"In a vast ocean of too-much-to -read out there, I can always find an island of sanity in her work and, within individual poems, always, always spots of light and breath and truth." — Lia Purpura

"Our good fortune is not that she was born into opulence or privilege (she wasn’t) but that she has been gifted with a prodigious imagination that somehow manages to sift through the ordinary, quotidian, and squalid realities of our world, to produce moments of grace and shimmering beauty, and empathetic illumination.  Dorianne Laux is a national treasure, a poet of immense insight and masterful craft, who, in channeling her mentor Phil Levine’s admonitions to her, produced her own endorsement: 'To be yourself in your own time, to stand up/ That poetry was precision, raw precision/ Truth and compassion: genius.' Only as the Day Is Long. is a tour de force, a work of striking beauty and humanity—a work for its own time." — Kwame Dawes, author of City of Bones: A Testament

"This is a catalogue of honest work, from beginning to end." —  Publisher's Weekly, starred review

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Duet

With Joseph Millar
Jacar Press
Paperback, ISBN-10: 0936481161 / ISBN-13: 978-0936481166

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Ce Que Nous Portons

What We Carry, translated by Hélène Cardona

Editions du Cygne, December 2014
Paperback, 13 x 20 cm, 68 pages, ISBN: 978-2-84924-377-0

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The Book of Men

“Dorianne Laux dares to parse her life through the prism of men who’ve passed through it.”  —New York Times [More reviews]

W. W. Norton & Company, August 6, 2012 
Paperback, 5.6 × 8.3 in, 96 pages, ISBN 978-0-393-34265-9

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Facts About The Moon

"Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today."  —Philip Levine [More reviews]

W. W. Norton & Company, May 2007
Paperback, 5.5 × 8.3 in, 104 pages, ISBN 978-0-393-32962-9

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Smoke

"In Smoke, Laux revisits familiar themes of family, working class lives and the pleasures of the body in poetry that is vital and artfully crafted." [Read praise & reviews]

BOA Editions, Limited, October 2000
Paperback, 6 x 9 in, 65 pages, ISBN 1-880238-86-1

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The Poet's Companion

by: Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux

“An intelligent, lucid conversation—between the authors and between them and us. I have been with them all—there is no better companion!” — Gerald Stern

W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition, September, 1997
Paperback, 288 pages, ISBN-10: 0393316548

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What We Carry

Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

From the publisher: "It seems that Ms. Laux has chosen to witness what she must on her journey, in some way reliving and weaving together who she was and who she is to fully reclaim her body and soul." — William O'Daly

BOA Editions, Limited, June, 1994
Paperback, 6 x 9 in., 80 pages, ISBN-10: 1880238071

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Awake

Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry

From the publisher: "Awake, Dorianne Laux's first book of poetry, is introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine for a reason: It's a near-perfect, emotionally haunting book."

Carnegie Mellon, September, 2013
Paperback, 5.5 x 9 in., 72 pages, ISBN-10: 0887485731
(Originally published by BOA Editions in 1990)

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