num_pages: 71
description: Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry includes poems of survival, poems of healing, poems of affirmation, and poems of celebration.
language: English
title: What We Carry
titlecomplete: What We Carry
genres: The United States Of America, Womens, American, Nonfiction, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 1009
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Poetry
publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.