Salt

by Dorianne Laux

Limited edition of 345 copies. This chapbook contains 11 poems including: In Any Event, Ode to the Territory, Spring, Salt, etc.

Genres: Poetry

20 pages, Chapbook

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

DORIANNE LAUX’s most recent collection is Life On Earth. Only As The Day Is Long: New and Selected, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also author of The Book of Men (W.W. Norton) which won the Paterson Prize for Poetry. Her fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award, chosen by Ai. It was also short-listed for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States and chosen by the Kansas City Star as a noteworthy book of 2005. A finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award, Laux is also author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990) introduced by Philip Levine, What We Carry (1994) and Smoke (2000). Red Dragonfly Press released The Book of Women in 2012. Co-author of The Poet's Companion, she’s the recipient of three Best American Poetry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Best of the American Poetry Review, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, and she’s a frequent contributor to magazines as various as Tinhouse, Orion, Oxford American and Ms. Magazine. Laux has waited tables and written poems in San Diego, Los Angeles, Berkeley, and Petaluma, California, and as far north as Juneau, Alaska. She has taught poetry at the University of Oregon and is founding faculty at Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program. In 2008 she and her husband, poet Joseph Millar, moved to Raleigh where she directs the program In Creative Writing at North Carolina State University. She is founding faculty for Pacific University's Low Residency MFA Program.

Reviews

[Gregg Hower · Rating 5 out of 5]

11 poems that were new to me, offering hope and a vision of endurance. Exactly what I needed. [This chapbook is sold through the poet's website.]

[Ayana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good, life poetry. It talks of daughters and mothers, the dust we came from, and what yet “we are capable of”. It’s hopeful poetry, written in spring 2020. And, each copy is hand-bound, so of course it’s special. Thank you, Dorianne Laux!

[Martina McGowan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful, moving, lyrical poetry that speaks to the spirit.
“… when you’ve been scrubbed
hollow by confusion, loss,
accept joy, those unbidden
moments of surcease-…”
“… the horse inside
waiting for your touch, …”