Life on Earth
Longlisted for the National Book Award One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year “[A] small marvel.… Laux’s deft, muscular verse illuminates the sharp facets of everyday existence.” —The New Yorker Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux returns with an insightful, compassionate, and spirited volume that celebrates the imperfect miracle of humanity. 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. Life on Earth is a book of praise for our planet and ourselves, delivered with Laux’s trademark vitality, frank observation, and earthy wisdom. With odes to the unlikely and elemental—salt, snow, crows