Life on Earth
Poems
1 August 2025
Territory Rights — Worldwide.
Description
Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux returns with an insightful, compassionate and spirited volume that celebrates the imperfect miracle of humanity
In her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us and appreciate us fully as the flawed humans we are. Life on Earth is a book of praise for our planet and ourselves, delivered with Laux’s trademark vitality, frank observation and earthy wisdom. With odes to the unlikely and elemental—snow, crows, cups, a shovel and rake, the ubiquitous can of WD-40, “the way / it releases the caught cogs / of the world”—Life on Earth urges us all to find magic in the mess of ordinary life. The volume includes powerful reflections on loss and ageing and encounters with the fleeting beauty of the natural world. Transcending life’s inevitable moments of pain and uncertainty, Life on Earth instructs us in our own endless possibilities and the astonishing riches of the world around us.
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An illuminating book of concise craft essays and exercises for poets, from Pulitzer Prize finalist and The Poet’s Companion coauthor Dorianne Laux.
Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems
Paperback, 2020
A collection of new and selected works from a prize-winning poet known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian.
Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems
E Book, 2019
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The Book of Men: Poems
Paperback, 2012
“Dorianne Laux dares to parse her life through the prism of men who’ve passed through it.” —New York Times
The Book of Men: Poems
E Book, 2011
"Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today."—Philip Levine
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