Finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry “Clear, compelling and insightful.” —
Washington Post
Earthy and lyrical,
Only as the Day Is Long
draws from Dorianne Laux’s five expansive, award-winning volumes and includes twenty new odes that pay homage to the poet’s mother. Exploring experiences of survival and healing, of sexual love and celebration,
represents a bold and brilliant body of work from a “poet of immense insight and masterful craft” (Kwame Dawes).