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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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Contents
Title Page
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
I
The Gentleman Who Spoke Like Music
Behind the Horseman Sits Black Care,
The Hungry Gap-Time,
Hitlerās Slippers
Sleepās Ambulance
Lump of Sugar on an Anthill
Stink Eye:
The Lead Hour
The First Song
Peacocks in Twilight
Nolens Volens (Whether Willing or Unwilling)
Gravy Boat Goes over Waterfall
The General Law of Oblivion,
Midmorning,
Put the Bandage on the Sword and Not the Wound
The Harmonic Scalpel
The Republic of Anesthesia
Man Pedaling Next to His Bicycle
Her Hat, That Party on Her Head
Eyes Scooped Out and Replaced by Hot Coals
The Pier Aspiring
II
God Particles
Their Feet Shall Slide in Due Time
Invective
Jesusā Baby Teeth
How Difficult
Apology to My Neighbors for Beheading Their Duck
Antinomianism,
5,495
The Utopian Wars
The Joy-Bringer
III
The Happy Majority
Cliffs Shining with Rain
The Shooting Zoo
The Ambrosiana Library
The Deathwatch Beetle
Mole Emerging from Trench Wall, Verdun, 1916
The Grand Climacteric
Vaticide,
Early Blur
Sex After Funerals
Puzzlehead
Blue Vistas Glued
The American Duel
Toad on Golf Tee
And the Mice Made Marriage All Night
Vinegar on Chalk
Autobiographophobia
Sugar Spoon
A Clearing, a Meadow, in Deep Forest
Notes
About the Author
Connect with HMH
Copyright Ā© 2008 by Thomas Lux
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- I
- The Gentleman Who Spoke Like Music
- Behind the Horseman Sits Black Care,
- The Hungry Gap-Time,
- Hitlerās Slippers
- Sleepās Ambulance
- Lump of Sugar on an Anthill
- Stink Eye:
- The Lead Hour
- The First Song
- Peacocks in Twilight
- Nolens Volens (Whether Willing or Unwilling)
- Gravy Boat Goes over Waterfall
- The General Law of Oblivion,
- Midmorning,
- Put the Bandage on the Sword and Not the Wound
- The Harmonic Scalpel
- The Republic of Anesthesia
- Man Pedaling Next to His Bicycle
- Her Hat, That Party on Her Head
- Eyes Scooped Out and Replaced by Hot Coals
- The Pier Aspiring
- II
- God Particles
- Their Feet Shall Slide in Due Time
- Invective
- Jesusā Baby Teeth
- How Difficult
- Apology to My Neighbors for Beheading Their Duck
- Antinomianism,
- 5,495
- The Utopian Wars
- The Joy-Bringer
- III
- The Happy Majority
- Cliffs Shining with Rain
- The Shooting Zoo
- The Ambrosiana Library
- The Deathwatch Beetle
- Mole Emerging from Trench Wall, Verdun, 1916
- The Grand Climacteric
- Vaticide,
- Early Blur
- Sex After Funerals
- Puzzlehead
- Blue Vistas Glued
- The American Duel
- Toad on Golf Tee
- And the Mice Made Marriage All Night
- Vinegar on Chalk
- Autobiographophobia
- Sugar Spoon
- A Clearing, a Meadow, in Deep Forest
- Notes
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH