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2186918Life on Earth: Poemshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/life-on-earth-poems-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1962155/7a7d95cd-f2c4-423c-b2aa-1a583bb7bb22.jpg?v=638736802847800000337467MXNW. W. Norton & CompanyInStock/Ebooks/<p>Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry<br />One of the <em>New Yorkers</em> Best Books of 2024</p><p>Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux returns with an insightful, compassionate, and spirited volume that celebrates the imperfect miracle of humanity.</p><p>In her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us, and appreciate us fully as the flawed humans we are. <em>Life on Earth</em> is a book of praise for our planet and ourselves, delivered with Lauxs trademark vitality, frank observation, and earthy wisdom.</p><p>With odes to the unlikely and elementalsalt, snow, crows, cups, Bisquick, a shovel and rake, the ubiquitous can of WD-40, the way / it releases the caught cogs / of the world<em>Life on Earth</em> urges us all to find extraordinary magic in the mess of ordinary life. One of our most daring contemporary poets (Diana Whitney, <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>), Laux balances wonder at the night sky and the taste of a ripe peach with recognition of the sharp knife of mortality. The volume includes powerful homages to the poets mother and her carpenters spirit, reflections on loss and aging, and encounters with the fleeting beauty of the natural world.</p><p>Transcending lifes inevitable moments of pain and uncertainty, <em>Life on Earth</em> instructs us in our own endless possibilities and the astonishing riches of the world around us.</p>...2156704Life on Earth: Poems337467https://www.gandhi.com.mx/life-on-earth-poems-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1962155/7a7d95cd-f2c4-423c-b2aa-1a583bb7bb22.jpg?v=638736802847800000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781324065838_W3siaWQiOiJhZjI0ODQ3YS01ZWI2LTRlNjMtOTFkOS0zMjMwYTIxZDQ1YWEiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjU0MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjE1Miwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjozODgsImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI1LTAxLTMwVDA3OjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9XQ==9781324065838_<p><strong>Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux returns with an insightful, compassionate, and spirited volume that celebrates the imperfect miracle of humanity.</strong></p><p>In her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us, and appreciate us fully as the flawed humans we are. <em>Life on Earth</em> is a book of praise for our planet and ourselves, delivered with Lauxs trademark vitality, frank observation, and earthy wisdom.</p><p>With odes to the unlikely and elementalsalt, snow, crows, cups, Bisquick, a shovel and rake, the ubiquitous can of WD-40, the way / it releases the caught cogs / of the world<em>Life on Earth</em> urges us all to find extraordinary magic in the mess of ordinary life. One of our most daring contemporary poets (Diana Whitney, <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>), Laux balances wonder at the night sky and the taste of a ripe peach with recognition of the sharp knife of mortality. The volume includes powerful homages to the poets mother and her carpenters spirit, reflections on loss and aging, and encounters with the fleeting beauty of the natural world.</p><p>Transcending lifes inevitable moments of pain and uncertainty, <em>Life on Earth</em> instructs us in our own endless possibilities and the astonishing riches of the world around us.</p>...(*_*)9781324065838_<p>Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry<br />One of the <em>New Yorkers</em> Best Books of 2024</p><p>Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux returns with an insightful, compassionate, and spirited volume that celebrates the imperfect miracle of humanity.</p><p>In her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us, and appreciate us fully as the flawed humans we are. <em>Life on Earth</em> is a book of praise for our planet and ourselves, delivered with Lauxs trademark vitality, frank observation, and earthy wisdom.</p><p>With odes to the unlikely and elementalsalt, snow, crows, cups, Bisquick, a shovel and rake, the ubiquitous can of WD-40, the way / it releases the caught cogs / of the world<em>Life on Earth</em> urges us all to find extraordinary magic in the mess of ordinary life. One of our most daring contemporary poets (Diana Whitney, <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>), Laux balances wonder at the night sky and the taste of a ripe peach with recognition of the sharp knife of mortality. The volume includes powerful homages to the poets mother and her carpenters spirit, reflections on loss and aging, and encounters with the fleeting beauty of the natural world.</p><p>Transcending lifes inevitable moments of pain and uncertainty, <em>Life on Earth</em> instructs us in our own endless possibilities and the astonishing riches of the world around us.</p>...9781324065838_W. W. Norton & Companylibro_electonico_3d05990e-e4e0-3b88-ac34-5c0107fd4414_9781324065838;9781324065838_9781324065838Dorianne LauxInglésMéxico2024-01-09T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/wwnorton-epub-c94a702d-1395-42e0-937f-85512efb72e8.epub2024-01-09T00:00:00+00:00W. W. Norton & Company