{"title":"Dorianne Laux","description":"\u003cp\u003eDorianne Laux is the author of five collections of poetry, including three from BOA Editions: \u003cem\u003eAwake\u003c\/em\u003e (1990), selected by Philip Levine as a Winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize; \u003cem\u003eWhat We Carry\u003c\/em\u003e (1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and \u003cem\u003eSmoke \u003c\/em\u003e(2000). Her most recent collection,\u003cem\u003e The Book of Men\u003c\/em\u003e (W.W. Norton, 2012) was the winner of the Patterson Prize. She is also the recipient of two Best American Poetry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. For more information about Dorianne Laux, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/doriannelaux.net\/\"\u003edoriannelaux.net\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"smoke","title":"Smoke","description":"\u003cp\u003eDorianne Laux’s long-awaited third book of poetry follows her collection,\u003cem\u003e What We Carry\u003c\/em\u003e, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. In \u003cem\u003eSmoke\u003c\/em\u003e, Laux revisits familiar themes of family, working class lives and the pleasures of the body in poetry that is vital and artfully crafted—poetry that “gets hard in the face of aloofness,” in the words of one reviewer. A s in her previous work, Laux weaves the warp and woof of ordinary lives into extraordinary and complex tapestries. In “The Shipfitter’s Wife,” a woman recalls her husband’s homecoming at the end of his work day: \"Then I’d open his clothes and take the whole day inside me--the ship’s gray sides, the miles of copper pipe, the voice of the foreman clanging off the hull’s silver ribs. Spark of lead kissing metal. The clamp, the winch, the white fire of the torch, the whistle, and the long drive home.\" And in the title poem, Laux muses on her own guilty pleasures: \"Who would want to give it up, the coal a cat’s eye in the dark room, no one there but you and your smoke, the window cracked to street sounds, the distant cries of living things. Alone, you are almost safe . . ..\" With her keen ear and attentive eye, Dorianne Laux offers us a universe with which we are familiar, but gives it to us fresh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e         \u003cem\u003efor Miguel Hernández\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e         (1910-1942) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMadrid, 1934 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil a shepard boy from Orihuela\u003cbr\u003eclimbed a tree, curled his bare toes\u003cbr\u003earound a high olive branch, buried his face\u003cbr\u003eamong the leaves and whistled, Neruda \u003cbr\u003ehad not heard a nightingale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvailable editions:\u003cbr\u003e-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrice: $14.95 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418980293,"sku":"1880238861","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/SMOKE.jpg?v=1527683350"},{"product_id":"what-we-carry","title":"What We Carry","description":"\u003ch4\u003eFinalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDorianne Laux's is a poetry of risk, going to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. \u003cem\u003eWhat We Carry\u003c\/em\u003e includes poems of survival, affirmation and celebration. Sculptured, fluid and generous, they reveal a poet informed by experience and caring. William O'Daly writes: \"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 . . . \"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Enough Music\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sometimes, when we're on a long drive,\u003cbr\u003e and we've talked enough and listened \u003cbr\u003e to enough music and stopped twice, \u003cbr\u003e once to eat, once to see the view,\u003cbr\u003e we fall into this rhythm of silence.\u003cbr\u003e It swings back and forth between us\u003cbr\u003e like a rope over a lake. \u003cbr\u003e Maybe it's what we don't say\u003cbr\u003e that saves us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e © BOA Editions, Ltd 1994\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Available editions: \u003cbr\u003e -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e Paperback ISBN: 1-880238-07-1\u003cbr\u003e Price: $14.95 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: January 1994\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8419361221,"sku":"1-880238-07-1","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/WHAT_WE_CARRY2.jpg?v=1527683783"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/65.1340213146.jpeg?v=1449014656","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/dorianne-laux.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}