LoginThe Book of Men: Poems
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“Dorianne Laux dares to parse her life through the prism of men who’ve passed through it.”―New York Times “The Book of Men finds Laux at her best. She’s witty, engaging, and candid. . . . Echoes of Whitman are everywhere in The Book of Men. Both Whitman and Laux are profoundly democratic poets. Anyone can live in their poems, and their poems can live anywhere.”―The Rumpus
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Release date: 6 August 2012
ISBN-10 : 0393342654 | ISBN-13: 9780393342659
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Release date: 6 August 2012
ISBN-10 : 0393342654 | ISBN-13: 9780393342659
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