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Feb.16.2012 - 2:51 pm
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Ami Kaye, Review of Dorianne Laux’s “The Book of Men”
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THE BOOK OF...
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Dec.06.2010 - 10:36 am
In California, we filled your tank, for a while, but then came self-serve and the little booth between the pump aisles where we also sold candy, gum and cigarettes, wiper blades...
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Apr.14.2008 - 6:15 pm
The moon is backing away from usan inch and a half each year. That means if you’re like me and were born around fifty years ago the moonwas a full six feet closer to the earth....
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Nov.06.2011
Published by http://dgvcfaspring10.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/the-perplexing-other-a-review-of-dorianne-lauxs-the-
I was pleasantly surprised to find that this wasn’t the “answers” book I had imagined, but rather a place for Laux’s questions to flourish, seeding our own questionings. Some of...
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O Magazine, for example, would love her poems, as would its readers. I think of her as the Ricky Lee Jones of poetry. They are often sweet without being sentimental. Her poems are little songs of honest hope. --Dean Rader”
—The Rumpus
About Dorianne
Dorianne Laux’s most recent collections are The Book of Men and Facts about the Moon. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Oregon Book Award and The Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry, Laux is also author of Awake, What We...
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