About this title: God Particles displays the distinctive originality and unpredictability that prompted the Washington Post Book World to name Lux one of this generation's most gifted poets. A satiric edge, tempered by profound compassion, cuts through many of the poems in Lux's book. While themes of intolerance, inhumanity, loss, and a deep sense of mortality mark these poems, a lighthearted grace instills even the somberest moments with unexpected sweetness. In the title poem Lux writes, "there's no reason for God to feel guilt / I think He was downhearted, weary, too weary / to be angry anymore . . . / He ...
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 2008
Description: Fine. No Jacket as Issued. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BT2-An advance reading copy trade paperback book in fine condition. A new collection of poems from Thomas Lux, the Kingsley Tufts award-winning author of The Street of Clocks and The Cradle Place. 8.5"x5.5", 63 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2008-03-17
ISBN-13:9780618931828ISBN:0618931821
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2008-03-17
ISBN-13:9780618931828ISBN:0618931821
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780618931828ISBN:0618931821
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Description: New. God Particles displays the distinctive originality and unpredictability that prompted the Washington Post Book World to name Lux one of this generation's most gifted poets. A satiric edge, tempered by profound compassion, cuts through many of the poe... read more
"Superb -- funny, disturbing (frequently offensive), and strangely infused with hope. This collection somehow captures the moment in which loneliness becomes aware of its mysterious opposite, and in which loathing turns into a question."
"I have mixed feelings about this collection of poems. It's separated into three sections, with many shorter poems included. Some of them aren't as funny as they're intended to be (I happen to like semicolons and dislike colons and exclamation points, and Lux never uses the former but always uses the latter), and many just aren't poignant enough to warren poetic topics, I think.
However, clearly Lux has a good ear and can write some really good lines. One of my favorite poems was, in fact, the title poem, and the rest mainly fall within the second section of the book. I can't really figure out how the three sections logically fit together, but I'm willing to read along anyway (although I was, at times, skimming).
One things I truly dislike is a poem that uses the title as its first line. And I don't meant that the title and first line are the same (I'm fine with that), but the title actually leads into the first "line" of the poem. And maybe 1/4 or 1/3 of Lux's poems do that, including the first one--which is especially awkward, as there's a dedication literally between the title and that "first" line, which makes for some difficult reading very early on.
Still, I prefer the length of these poems, and at times they surprise me when they travel to unexpected places as they conclude. I have to read more by Lux to judge how indicative this is of his work in general."
"This was my first introduction to Thomas Lux and I really enjoyed his poems. They pay attention to language and touch on serious subjects with playfulness."
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