Smoke : poems
Laux, Dorianne
Smoke : poems / by Dorianne Laux - 1st ed. - Rochester, NY : BOA Editions , 2000. - 72 p. ; 24 cm. - American poets continuum series ; v. 62 .
The largely domestic and narrative poems of Laux's Smoke shift between internal and external landscapes in a manner that at moments recalls early Richard Hugo: "Somewhere/ a Dumpster is ratcheted open by the claws/ of a black machine. All down the block/ something inside you opens and shuts." Her strongest work here achieves a solid music by using direct address in poems such as "Books" and "The Shipfitter's Wife." Yet the plainspoken approach, aiming at understatement, often specifies too little, letting emotional nuance go unarticulated.
1880238861
00057945
Poetry, American
PS3562.A8455 / S66 2000
811.54 LAU
Smoke : poems / by Dorianne Laux - 1st ed. - Rochester, NY : BOA Editions , 2000. - 72 p. ; 24 cm. - American poets continuum series ; v. 62 .
The largely domestic and narrative poems of Laux's Smoke shift between internal and external landscapes in a manner that at moments recalls early Richard Hugo: "Somewhere/ a Dumpster is ratcheted open by the claws/ of a black machine. All down the block/ something inside you opens and shuts." Her strongest work here achieves a solid music by using direct address in poems such as "Books" and "The Shipfitter's Wife." Yet the plainspoken approach, aiming at understatement, often specifies too little, letting emotional nuance go unarticulated.
1880238861
00057945
Poetry, American
PS3562.A8455 / S66 2000
811.54 LAU
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