Only as the day is long new and selected poems
A collection drawn from Laux's five expansive volumes, and including new poems that pay homage to her mother. Laux finds expression in earthy and lyrical depictions of working-class America, while exploring experiences of survival and healing, of sexual love and celebration. -- adapted from jacket.
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- From Awake: Two pictures of my sister
- What my father told me
- Ghosts
- Garden
- Tooth fairy
- Quarter to six
- Awake
- Girl in the doorway
- On the back porch
- Bird
- Laundromat
- Sunday. From: What we carry: Late October
- After twelve days of rain
- Aphasia
- What we carry
- For the sake of strangers
- Dust
- Twelve
- Each sound
- Fast gas
- As it is
- Thief
- This close
- Lovers
- Kissing. From Smoke: Death comes to me again, a girl
- How it will happen, when
- Fear
- Last words
- Trying to raise the dead
- Shipfitter's wife
- Abschied symphony
- Family stories
- Pearl Smoke
- Orgasms of organisms
- life is beautiful. From Facts about the moon: Moon in the window
- Facts about the moon
- Crossing
- Ravens of Denali
- Life of trees
- What's broken
- Afterlife
- Savages
- Vacation sex
- Democracy
- Face poem
- Superglue
- Cello
- Little magnolia
- Starling. From The book of men: Staff Sgt. Metz
- Bakersfield 1969
- Juneau spring
- Mine own Phil Levine
- Late-night TV
- Homicide detective a: a film noir
- Mick Jagger (world tour, 2008)
- Men
- Antilamentation
- Cher
- Dog moon
- Mother's Day
- Dark charms
- Lost in Costco
- Second chances
- Fall
- Emily Said
- Secret of backs. From Only as the day is long, new poems: Lapse
- Before surgery
- Death of the mother
- Under stars
- Changeable weather
- Only as the day is long
- Piano with children
- My mother's colander
- Ant farm
- Heart of thorns
- Ideas of heaven
- Crow
- Ode to Gray
- Evening
- Error's refuge
- Augusta, Maine, 1951
- Chair
- Urn
- Arizona
- Letter to my dead mother.
