Poetry

What We Carry

Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Dorianne Laux's is a poetry of risk, going to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry 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 . . . "

Enough Music

Sometimes, when we're on a long drive,
and we've talked enough and listened
to enough music and stopped twice,
once to eat, once to see the view,
we fall into this rhythm of silence.
It swings back and forth between us
like a rope over a lake.
Maybe it's what we don't say
that saves us.

© BOA Editions, Ltd 1994

Available editions:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Paperback ISBN: 1-880238-07-1
Price: $14.95
Publishing Date: January 1994

FormatPaperback

Publication DateJanuary 1, 1994

ISBN1-880238-07-1

$16.00

About the Author

Dorianne Laux is the author of five collections of poetry, including three from BOA Editions: Awake (1990), selected by Philip Levine as a Winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize; What We Carry (1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Smoke (2000). Her most recent collection, The Book of Men (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 doriannelaux.net.