Dorianne Laux

Smoke

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In her long awaited third book of poetry, Laux revisits familiar themes of family, working class lives, and the pleasures of the body.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA ED
• Seitenzahl: 65
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 113g
• ISBN-13: 9781880238868
• ISBN-10: 1880238861
• Artikelnr.: 21245797

Autorenporträt

Dorianne Laux was born in 1952 in Augusta, Maine and is of Irish, French and Algonquin Indian heritage. In 1983 she moved to Berkeley, California where she began writing in earnest. Five years later she earned her B.A. degree in English from Mills College. Laux's first book of poems, Awake, published by BOA Editions in 1990, was nominated for the San Francisco Bay Area Book Critics Award for Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in numerous American journals and anthologies. She has received poetry fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, she teaches creative writing at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.