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Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux
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Dorianne Laux

Born: 10 January 1952

Dorianne Laux is the author of several collections of poetry, including What We Carry (1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Smoke (2000); Facts about the Moon (2005), chosen by the poet Ai as winner of the Oregon Book Award and also a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; The Book of Men (2011), which was awarded the Paterson Prize; and Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected (2019). She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been a Pushcart Prize winner. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, poet Joseph Millar. (Source)

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Poems by Dorianne Laux

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Enough Music by Dorianne Laux

January 2, 2026
“Maybe it's what we don't say / that saves us.” — Dorianne Laux
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Moon in the Window by Dorianne Laux

October 1, 2022
“Maybe it's what we don't say / that saves us.” — Dorianne Laux
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What’s Broken by Dorianne Laux

February 7, 2021
“Maybe it's what we don't say / that saves us.” — Dorianne Laux
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This Close by Dorianne Laux

June 5, 2011
"If I loved you, being this close would kill me." — Dorianne Laux
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Abschieds Symphony by Dorianne Laux

March 3, 2011
"Death is not romantic. He is dying, / no matter how I see it, no matter / what I believe" — Dorianne Laux
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How It Will Happen, When by Dorianne Laux

October 10, 2005
“Is you'll say over and over until it begins to make sense, and that's / when you'll say it, for the first time, out loud: He's dead. He's not / coming back.” — Dorianne Laux
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Death comes to me again, a girl by Dorianne Laux

September 27, 2005
“It’s not so terrible she tells me, / not like you think, all darkness / and silence.” — Dorianne Laux