Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.
Dorianne LauxThe reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and sexually abused and because I felt different than everybody else and I had this big huge secret that was tearing me apart.
Dorianne LauxGood writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.
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 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 LauxWe with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last word. We trust each other. We have our past working life in common, our recombined families, as well as our life as teachers, and we read much of the same literature and have similar esthetics, so there's a simpatico there. But we do disagree and that can be fruitful, even if it's not so great in the moment.
Dorianne Laux