God Particles
Poems
On Sale: 03/17/2008
God Particles
Poems
On Sale: 03/17/2008
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About the Book
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.
Product Details
- ISBN: 9780547523880
- ISBN 10: 0547523882
- Imprint: Ecco
- On Sale: 03/17/2008
- Pages: 80
- List Price:20.99 CAD
- BISAC1 : POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General
- BISAC2 : POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious
- BISAC3 : POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
