God Particles : Poems
by Lux, Thomas
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- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618931821
- ISBN 13
- 9780618931828
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Synopsis
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 wanted each of us, / and all the things we touch . . . / to have a tiny piece of Him / though we are unqualified, / of even the crumb of a crumb.” Dark, humorous, and strikingly imaginative, this is Lux’s most compassionate work to date.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5563605-6
- Title
- God Particles : Poems
- Author
- Lux, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0618931821
- ISBN 13
- 9780618931828
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- This edition first published
- 2008
- LCCN
- 2007038414
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