God Particles: Poems
by Thomas Lux
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Author: Thomas LuxEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-17
ISBN: 0618931821
Number of pages: 80
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Book Review: Lux keeps on keeping on
Summary: 4 Stars
Thomas lux is indeed genius. He has developed a style that is wholly unique and identifiable. This collection is a little lighter on the oddball-moments-in-history material that he has become known for (which may make his proclamation against this kind of "dour study" in his poem "Debate Regarding the Permissibility of Eating Mermaids" in The Cradle Place a kind of benchmark in his career), but a lot else that identifies Lux's work is to be found here--his ability to set premise and explore (like "The Republic of Anasthesia" and one of my favorites in this collection, "The Utopian Wars"), his tenderness towards others ("The Gentleman Who Spoke Like Music"), his intrigue with the ramifications of violence ("Invective") as well as his humor ("Apology to My Neighbors for Beheading Their Duck") and even the occasional treatise on the nature of poetry ("The First Song"). As ever, Lux is thoughtful and creates poetic worlds that pursue a dream-like logic. Like his brother from another mother, Stephen Dobyns, Lux creates off-putting situations but often brings them around to familiar territory, which is simply the constancy of the human soul to be barbaric and sweet. This is a collection to read not in order but haphazardly, letting each poem stand in its own muddy water rather to look at as a train.
But enough stupid metaphors. Lux is an exquisite read, though I did find that the collection was overall a little too controlled, a little too well thought out--the result of this is that too few poems take the kind of amazing and dangerous leaps like he did in poems like "Wife Hits Moose." An average Lux poem beats the tar out of many contemporaries on a cloudy day, so I still recommend this collection highly, but isn't quote the kind of collection that will instill the awe that Lux is due.
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