Tag Archives: Dorianne Laux

He Tasted What He Said – Poet, Philip Levine (1928- 2015)

February 16, 2015 – 11:18 pm

                      The Simple Truth I bought a dollar and a half’s worth of small red potatoes, took them home, boiled them in their jackets and ate them for dinner with a little butter and salt. Then I walked through the dried fields on the edge of town. […]

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Yet We Were Looking Away – On Missing the Moment!

February 16, 2015 – 8:20 pm

                                                                              The Self-Unseeing Here is the ancient floor, Footworn and hollowed and thin, Here was the former […]

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It’s the Music First!

August 3, 2013 – 6:19 pm

One Heart Look at the birds. Even flying is born out of nothing. The first sky is inside you, open at either end of day. The work of wings was always freedom, fastening one heart to every falling thing. Li-Young Lee from Book Of My Nights, BOA Editions, 2001 Last month I was at Fort […]

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No Ordinary Luminary – Dorianne Laux

September 7, 2011 – 7:09 pm

The American poet Dorianne Laux (1952 – ) was unknown to me when I first met her at the Skagit River Poetry Festival in La Conner, Washington in 2002. But ever since then I have licked up her words like the finest honey. (For more on Laux and her poems see Favorite Poets on the […]

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