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Smoke : poems / by Dorianne Laux

By:

Laux, Dorianne

Material type: Text

TextSeries: American poets continuum series ; ; v. 62Publication details: Rochester, NY : BOA Editions , 2000.Edition: 1st edDescription: 72 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

1880238861

Subject(s):

Poetry, American

DDC classification:

811.54 LAU

LOC classification:

PS3562.A8455 S66 2000

Summary: 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.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	811.54 LAU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		001719

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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.

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