About this title: The Cradle Place is the new collection from Thomas Lux, a self-described "recovering surrealist" and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award. These fifty-two poems bring to full life the "refreshing iconoclasms" Rita Dove so admired in Lux's earlier work. His voice is plainspoken but moody, humorous and edgy, and ever surprising. These are ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin and Company, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780618428304ISBN:0618428305
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. Fine in Very Good dj; slim hardcover, black quarter-cloth binding, clean inside and out. Illustrated dj is price-clipped. New collection of 52 poems from the winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780618428304ISBN:0618428305
Description: Dust Jacket Design By Michaela Sullivan; Dust Jacket Art By Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 'The Librarian'; Book Design By Melissa Lofty. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First printing of the Houghton Mifflin hardcover edition. xii, 68pp. Black quarter-cloth, black paper boards, gilt spine lettering, cream endpapers. Dust jacket price 22.00. Book and dust jacket are in As new, unread condition. No remainder markings. 'Thomas Lux is Bourne Professor of Poetry at the Georgia ... read more
"It took a little while to get into The Cradle Place, and not every poem is perfect, but by the end, I was very much in love with Lux's ability to create a new nature with his lines, and definitely plan on reading this one again."
"I am a big fan of Thomas Lux's work--when his work is sharp, he thrusts you immediately into a new quantum universe which is sometimes familiar, or sometimes not. Either way, it quickly establishes its own rules and explores those rules to some human conclusion. Poems of his like "Wife Hits Moose" or "Baby, Still Crying, Swallowed by A Snake" quickly explore the new territory they have established to finally make some point about faith or hopelessness.
Unfortunately, the poems that I just named are not ones that appear in this particular collection. I am always glad to see a new collection by Lux, for I know that the situations of his poems are going to continually surprise me, whether they are horses who die mid-gallop or mummies about to be ground into powder for other uses. But a few poems in here fail to reach those human conclusions that really mark Lux's best work. At one point, we find the speaker of a poem chastising himself for the kind of historical obsession Lux himself has shown in his poems, but this conclusion is unsatisfying and seems almost the work of a novice, which Lux is not.
A marvellous poem in this collection is "To Help the Monkey Cross the River," which in the end produces a hypothetical choice as wise and as wide as implication as Ginger or MaryAnn?, or Steak or Shrimp? This poem is a fine example of the pure genius of Lux, but these examples are more scant in this book.
I still look forward to the next Lux collection but am not fully satisfied with this particular production."
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