LoginFacts About the Moon: Poems
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"Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today."―Philip Levine In her powerful fourth collection, Dorianne Laux once again strikes fire from neighborhood moments: a quiet street at dusk, a pool hall, a bare tree. Focusing on the grace of working people, she captures the pain and beauty of women in all their variety, caught in the "lunar pull" of our time.
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Release date: 17 May 2007
ISBN-10 : 0393329623 | ISBN-13: 9780393329629
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Release date: 17 May 2007
ISBN-10 : 0393329623 | ISBN-13: 9780393329629
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mika_ added this to a list 7 years, 10 months ago
Read in 2016 (97 books items)""Facts About the Moon" "The moon is backing away from us an inch and a half each year. That means if you’re like me and were born around fifty years ago the moon was a full six feet closer to the earth. What’s a person supposed to do? I feel the gray cloud of consternation travel across my face. I begin thinking about the moon-lit past, how if you go back far enough you can imagine the breathtaking hugeness of the moon, prehistoric solar eclipses when the moon covered the sun so completely "
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