God Particles
by Thomas Lux
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0618931821
- ISBN 13
- 9780618931828
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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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- Title
- God Particles
- Author
- Thomas Lux
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0618931821
- ISBN 13
- 9780618931828
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2008
- LCCN
- 2007038414
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