Only As the Day Is LongOnly as the Day Is Long represents a brilliant, daring body of work from one of our boldest contemporary poets, known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian. Drawn from Dorianne Laux's five expansive volumes, including her confident debut Awake, National Book Critics Circle Finalist What We Carry, and Paterson Prizewinning The Book of Men, the poems in this collection have been "brought to the hard edge of meaning" (B. H.