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I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window, would turn toward it and wonder. I never wondered. I read. Dark signs that crawled toward the edge of the page. It took me years to grow a heart from paper and glue. All I had was a flashlight, bright as the moon, a white hole blazing beneath the sheets.
Facts About the MoonIn her powerful fourth collection, Dorianne Laux once again strikes fire from neighborhood moments: a quiet street at dusk, a pool hall, a bare tree. Focusing on the grace of working people, she captures the pain and beauty of women in all their variety, caught in the “lunar pull” of our time. more »
Dorianne Laux is the author of four books of poetry and co-author of The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. She has been the recipient of the Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina where she teaches poetry at North Carolina State University. For more, go to DorianneLaux.com.
Greg Delanty 
