The Poet's Companion

We work, we go to school, we form bonds of friendship and love, we break dishes in anger, we daydream, we follow the news or turn from it in despair, we forget

Her work has been praised by Adrienne Rich in Ms Magazine, and her second collection, What We Carry, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Laux has also received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Zoland Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985)

Tilbury House Publishers, Gardiner, Maine.

Copper Beech Press.

Wesleyan University Pres

DORIANNE LAUX is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon.

received the 1994 Great Lakes New Writers Award and a Silver Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California.