{"product_id":"life-on-earth-poems","title":"Life on Earth: Poems","description":"Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry\nOne of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2024\n\nPulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux returns with an insightful, compassionate, and spirited volume that celebrates the imperfect miracle of humanity.\nIn her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us, and appreciate us fully as the flawed humans we are. Life on Earth is a book of praise for our planet and ourselves, delivered with Laux’s trademark vitality, frank observation, and earthy wisdom.\nWith odes to the unlikely and elemental―salt, snow, crows, cups, Bisquick, a shovel and rake, the ubiquitous can of WD-40, “the way \/ it releases the caught cogs \/ of the world”―Life on Earth urges us all to find extraordinary magic in the mess of ordinary life. “One of our most daring contemporary poets” (Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle), 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 poet’s mother and her carpenter’s spirit, reflections on loss and aging, and encounters with the fleeting beauty of the natural world.\nTranscending life’s inevitable moments of pain and uncertainty, Life on Earth instructs us in our own endless possibilities and the astonishing riches of the world around us.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1324065826\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1324065826.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Laux, Dorianne\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41505748254778,"sku":"DBV.1324065826.G","price":11.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1324065826-0.jpg?v=1783205335","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/life-on-earth-poems","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}