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Author_Dorianne Laux
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Product details
- ISBN 9781324110354
- Weight: 111g
- Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jun 2025
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us and appreciate us fully as the flawed humans we are. Life on Earth is a book of praise for our planet and ourselves, delivered with Laux’s trademark vitality, frank observation and earthy wisdom. With odes to the unlikely and elemental—snow, crows, cups, a shovel and rake, the ubiquitous can of WD-40, “the way / it releases the caught cogs / of the world”—Life on Earth urges us all to find magic in the mess of ordinary life. The volume includes powerful reflections on loss and ageing and encounters with the fleeting beauty of the natural world. Transcending life’s inevitable moments of pain and uncertainty, Life on Earth instructs us in our own endless possibilities and the astonishing riches of the world around us.
Dorianne Laux’s poetry collections include Only as the Day Is Long, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Book of Men, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize; and Facts about the Moon, winner of the Oregon Book Award. She is the coauthor of The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. A founding faculty member of Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program, she lives in Richmond, California.
