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August 4, 2015
 

Only as the Day Is Long

 
Dorianne Laux

About This Poem

 

“I’ve been writing poems about my mother who died a few years ago. I’ve tried to write about other things, but she keeps elbowing her way in, saying remember me.”
Dorianne Laux

 

Dorianne Laux is the author of The Book of Men (W. W. Norton, 2012).  She teaches poetry at North Carolina State University and is founding faculty at Pacific University’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing low-residency program.

 

Photo Credit: John Campbell

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Poetry by Laux

 

The Book of Men

(W. W. Norton, 2012)

"My Mother Was No White Dove" by Reginald Shepherd

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"Mother" by Lola Ridge

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"Suddenly" by Sharon Olds

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