Title: Facts about the moon : poems /
Authors: Laux, Dorianne; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Women Poetry.; Working class Poetry
Abstract: "In this fourth collection, Dorianne Laux once again strikes fire from the stones of the ordinary: a quiet neighborhood street at dusk, a pool hall, a bare tree, a starling. Her lines measure the vulnerable grace of working people, the waitress, the nurse, the bus driver. And especially in this new collection, the beauty and pain of young women, mothers and daughters, sisters, lovers, caught in the "lunar pull" of our time, coming of age in America."--Jacket.
Contents: The life of trees -- Democracy -- Vacation sex -- The ravens of Denali -- The crossing -- Hummingbird -- My brother's grave -- The last days of Pompeii -- Moon in the window -- Facts about the moon -- What's broken -- Her first -- The Germans -- Come spring -- For Matthew Shepard -- Afterlife -- Face poem -- Laundry and cigarettes -- Puzzle dust -- The lost -- Poolhall -- It must have been summer -- What's terrible -- Superglue -- Sisters -- A walk in the park -- Little magnolia -- Girl child -- The idea of housework -- Music in the morning -- Kissing again -- Savages -- Against endings -- Tonight I am in love -- Cello -- The birthday party -- One cell -- Morning song -- Starling.