Life on Earth: Poems is a 2024 poetry collection by Dorianne Laux, published by W. W. Norton & Company.

[4][5] In a starred review, Publishers Weekly lauded the book "spellbinding" and said "Laux makes the quotidian feel monumental in a way that is uniquely her own.

"[6] The New Yorker, in a briefly noted review, said "Laux’s deft, muscular verse illuminates the sharp facets of everyday existence, rendering humble things ... into opportunities to project memory and imagination.

Beautifully constructed exercises in tender yet fierce attention, these poems bear witness to deaths in the family, to climate destruction, and to the ravages of U.S. history, even as they insist on intimacy and wonder.

"[7] On the Seawall said "Laux’s lenses, however, see into yet unperceived life within our subtle relationships with products, inventions, and pop culture, as well as the flexible boundaries we share with myth, poetry, and the unwitnessed, unexperienced aspects of our own lives and souls.