Thomas Lux

Child Made of Sand (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Readers familiar with Thomas Luxs quick-witted images ("e;Language without simile is like a lung/ without air"e;) and his rambunctious, Cirque-Du-Soleil-like imagination ("e;The Under-Appreciated Pontooniers"e;) will find in his new collection, Child Made of Sand, not only the signature funny, provocative, and poignant super-surrealism that has made him, along with Charles Simic, James Tate, and Dean Young, one of Americas most inventive and humane poets, but they will also find in a surprising series of homages, elegies, rants, and autobiographical poems a new register of language in which time and mortality echo and reverberate in quieter notes. In "e;West Shining Tree,"e; we can hear this shift in register when he asks: "e;Ill head dead West and ask of all I see:/ Which is the way, the long or the short way,/ to the West Shining Tree?"e;

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547581019
• Artikelnr.: 52483185

Autorenporträt

THOMAS LUX holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry and is the director of the McEver Visiting Writers Program at 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.