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by: Thomas Lux
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780618619443
ISBN: 0618619445
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: August 06, 2007
Publisher: Mariner Books
Sales Rank: 976949
Studio: Mariner Books
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'[Lux is] sui generis, his own kind of poet, unlike any of the fashions of his time.' – Stanley Kunitz
Thomas Lux is humorous, edgy, and ever surprising in The Cradle Place, his tenth collection of verse. These fifty-two poems question language and intention and the sometimes untidy connections between the human and natural worlds. Lux has long been an outspoken advocate for the relevance of poetry in American culture, and his voice is urgent and unrelentingly evocative. As Sven Birkerts has noted, 'Lux may be one of the poets on whom the future of the genre depends.'
'A book full of arresting images . . . The natural world, as it appears here, is at first lovely . . . but turns out dangerously vanquished . . . Not since Plath has hysteria looked this kissable.' – San Francisco Chronicle
'Lux has a gift for the swiftly turned expression . . . Such immediacy and quirkiness will hold a reader.' – Poetry
'Readers will be mesmerized.' – Poetry Book of the Year, Library Journal
THOMAS LUX holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry and is director of the McEver Visiting Writers Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been awarded three NEA grants and the Kingsley Tufts Award, and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Atlanta.
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Rating:  - 4-star review for a 5-star poet
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 ... Read More
Rating:  - And he teaches poetry?
So many other deserving books should be published with Houghton Mifflin before the drivel of Cradle Place.
Rating: - Maybe it's time to stop breathing
Thomas Lux is at it again with another collection of insipid poems. I almost laughed myself to tears over his "invisible sliver of a body mite". I read the other reviews on "The cradle place" and can't decide whether these people are lost in their own egos or simply dull-witted. In either case, someone needs to turn off the proverbial ambassadorial light and shut the door.
Rating: - Dark, sad, squirrely
This poet must be drowning in his own sorrows and hoping to take the whole world with him. From the tone of the work, he's on a spin to the bottom never to return to normalcy. In truth, it scares me to think there are men out there like this who want to fool you into thinking they don't live with insecurity by showing how tough they are. Instead, they are transparent. It is the one virtue of this work. It reveals a weak character.
Rating:  - some good work, not his best
I bought this book at full price in a chain bookstore because I think Lux should get all the recognition coming to him. His selected poetry is masterful, The Street of Clocks astounding, and there are some damn fine poems in here, but in all I don't think this work snaps-to like they did in other collections. Boatloads of mummies, and even a self-chastisement about his neurotic history probing, but in all he doesn't quite pull off what he did in poems like The Man Into Whose Yard and others. Lux ... Read More
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