That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.
Dorianne LauxI love people and psychology. As a writer, Iโm not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car. I want to go inside Fredโs soul and play there.
Dorianne LauxPoetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others--not as information, or polemic, but as irreducible art.
Dorianne LauxTinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.
Dorianne Laux