“Dorianne Laux dares to parse her life through the prism of men who’ve passed through it.â€â€•New York Times
“The Book of Men finds Laux at her best. She’s witty, engaging, and candid. . . . Echoes of Whitman are everywhere in The Book of Men. Both Whitman and Laux are profoundly democratic poets. Anyone can live in their poems, and their poems can live anywhere.â€â€•The Rumpus