Dorianne laux biography of mahatma
Dorianne Laux has this to say about her poem, “Demographic.” She lives in Eugene, Oregon, so I assume that is where the poem takes place.
I think the trees, like Mahatma Ghandi, show us how to live a peaceful life, show us how giving to one another is the most important thing on earth..
Books
From the Publisher:
A collection of new and selected works from a prize-winning poet known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian.
Drawing from five expansive volumes and including twenty new pieces, Only as the Day Is Long represents an astonishing, confident, and daring body of work from one of our most accomplished poets. Philip Levine praises Dorianne Laux for her poetry’s “enormous precision and beauty,” and B.
H. Fairchild proclaims that her poems are “brought to the hard edge of meaning.” The new poems are odes to Laux’s mother, an extraordinary and ordinary woman of the Depression era. Exploring experiences of survival and healing, sexual love and celebration, Only as the Day Is Long shows Laux at the height of her powers.
Praise for Only As The Day Is Long:
"Laux, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for her 1994 book “What We Carry,” shows us how to endure hardships without losing
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