From The Gettysburg Review
“Laux is a believer in desire, and she takes her stance as a hero of the ordinary, with both feet firmly planted in the luminous material world. Her poems are those of a grown American woman, one who looks clearly, passionately, and affectionately at rites of passage, motherhood, the life of work, sisterhood, and especially sexual love, in a celebratory fashion. What we carry, she says, is the ashes of the dead under the station wagon seat, our losses and defeats, and the obligation to continue the human project.”
—Tony Hoagland
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