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Publisher's Weekly Starred Review: Only as the Day is Long: New and Selected PoemsDorianne Laux. Norton, $26.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-393-65233-8Featuring selections from five books augmented by 20 new poems, this generous volume from Laux (The Book of Men) reads something like a life story: notably, one that begins with familial fear, incest, and abuse. Travelling through confusion, adult sex, motherhood, love, fatigue, and redemption, Laux ends where she begins: with her mother, who is, to the las...
So wonderful to see Dorianne's new poems, many of them about her deceased mother. She is, in my opinion, a virtuoso!
Dorianne Laux: The Queen, The Rock Star, The RuPaul of Poetry. ❤️❤️❤️
We continue to speak, if only in whispers,to something inside us that longs to be named.We name it the past and drag it behind us,bag like a lung filled with shadow and song,dreams of running, the keys to lost names.*Moonlight pours downwithout mercy, no matterhow many have perishedbeneath the trees.The river rolls on.There will always besilence, no matterhow long someonehas wept againstthe side of a house,bare forearms pressedto the shingles.Everything ends.Even pain, even sorrow.The swans drif...
This is Laux's selected poems, and I could not stop reading it. What powerful, astonishing work with voice and image here. I'll be returning to this collection over and over again.
Only As the Day is Long by Dorianne Laux is a collection of new and selected poems that I picked up when I heard the poet read in Portland, Oregon at Powells Books. The book includes a large number of selected poems from five earlier collections, as well as a number of new poems in the title section, “Only as the Day is Long.” There is a lot to love here and I’ve been reading it gradually over a month or more. I think I am most moved by the new poems, though, many of which deal with the death of...
"The Garden" might be one of the most astonishing poems I've ever read.
A study in poignant detail and honesty.
CelloDorianne LauxWhen a dead tree falls in a forestit often falls into the armsof a living tree. The dead,thus embraced, rasp in wind,slowly carving a nichein the living branch, shearing awaythe rough outer flesh, revealingthe pinkish, yellowish, feverishinner bark. For yearsthe dead tree rubs its fallen body against the living, buildingits dead music, making its raw mark,wearing the tough bough downas it moans and bends, the deeprosined bow sound of the livingshouldering the dead.Kind of cool,...
all the stars in the sky...
"Pebbles grow smaller,/ smoother beneath night's/ rough currents. We walk// long distances, carting/ our bags, our packages./ Burdens of gift." A moving new-and-selected that digs deeply into life - such a sweet gift.
I've read all of Laux's previous books represented in this "collected & new" compendium, but so much enjoyed reading so many old favorites again. And the new poems are extra special, many of them about her mother's life and death. Dorianne Laux has long been one of my favorite contemporary poets. This book is a treasure.
Only As The Day Is Long gathers poems from Dorianne Laux’s existing publications by BOA Editions and W.W. Norton. Beginning with Awake, published in 1990, and then reaching The Book of Men, published in 2011, Laux offers readers a vantage point to view her poetic voice and concerns over two decades. The selected poems are largely free verse and driven by clear narratives. A final set - gathered for the first time and largely focused around the passing of Laux’s mother - round out the collection....
(TW: child sexual abuse) This anthology contains selections from her earlier books of poetry plus some new poems. The early poems dealing with the abuse she suffered as a child and her time in a mental institution are raw and show great vulnerability. The later poems reflect her growing maturity, but the emotions are more controlled/tamed. In the final poems mourning her mother’s death, the child-like vulnerability comes through again. A great collection.
Dorianne Laux is always interesting. I especially enjoyed the recollection here of previous work and the generous section of new poems. Her poetry becomes more powerful and moving with each publication. The last 2 poems here, about her mother, are excellent examples of how she can be muscular and tender at the same time. She likes to paint herself as a kind of madwoman loose in underwear and wild hair, but I think she has absolute control.
A thousand 5’s. My God, Laux is brilliant.
About many "New and Selected" collections, I've decided f they're too big, don't bother. Dorianne Laux's is NOT too big. In reading this I remember why I kept the first book of hers I owned (it was a gift--both meanings). Of this selection, all of the poems have something; a handful I am particularly grateful I ran into in this world. They made me stop. What more can one ask?Here are my Top Eight:"Two Pictures of My Sister""Ghosts""Twelve""The Lovers""Pearl""Bakersfield""Augusta, Maine 1951""Ari...
A wonderful overview of Laux's career, Only As the Day is Long includes the best poems from her five major collections plus twenty new pieces about grief. For fans of the poet's work, this is an essential volume. Strong recommend.
This is not the first poetry collection that I have read, but it is the first that I have completed. My favorite poem from Laux is "As It Is", I found a reading of the poem on youtube and can play it on repeat for a good part of the day like a song. I am wondering now, having watched many poetry recommendation videos, how anyone blitzes through a collection without feeling like they are not properly engaging with the work (hell, whatever that means). I will continue to read poetry collections bu...
Dorianne Laux is quite the accomplished poet. If I were to suggest one flaw in the work, though, it would be her incessant need to list and lean on monotone syntax.
