God Particles
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God Particles

Poems

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God Particles

Poems

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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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Publisher
Ecco
Year
2008
ISBN
9780547523880
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Contents

Title Page
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
I
The Gentleman Who Spoke Like Music
Behind the Horseman Sits Black Care,
The Hungry Gap-Time,
Hitlerā€™s Slippers
Sleepā€™s 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
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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. I
  7. The Gentleman Who Spoke Like Music
  8. Behind the Horseman Sits Black Care,
  9. The Hungry Gap-Time,
  10. Hitlerā€™s Slippers
  11. Sleepā€™s Ambulance
  12. Lump of Sugar on an Anthill
  13. Stink Eye:
  14. The Lead Hour
  15. The First Song
  16. Peacocks in Twilight
  17. Nolens Volens (Whether Willing or Unwilling)
  18. Gravy Boat Goes over Waterfall
  19. The General Law of Oblivion,
  20. Midmorning,
  21. Put the Bandage on the Sword and Not the Wound
  22. The Harmonic Scalpel
  23. The Republic of Anesthesia
  24. Man Pedaling Next to His Bicycle
  25. Her Hat, That Party on Her Head
  26. Eyes Scooped Out and Replaced by Hot Coals
  27. The Pier Aspiring
  28. II
  29. God Particles
  30. Their Feet Shall Slide in Due Time
  31. Invective
  32. Jesusā€™ Baby Teeth
  33. How Difficult
  34. Apology to My Neighbors for Beheading Their Duck
  35. Antinomianism,
  36. 5,495
  37. The Utopian Wars
  38. The Joy-Bringer
  39. III
  40. The Happy Majority
  41. Cliffs Shining with Rain
  42. The Shooting Zoo
  43. The Ambrosiana Library
  44. The Deathwatch Beetle
  45. Mole Emerging from Trench Wall, Verdun, 1916
  46. The Grand Climacteric
  47. Vaticide,
  48. Early Blur
  49. Sex After Funerals
  50. Puzzlehead
  51. Blue Vistas Glued
  52. The American Duel
  53. Toad on Golf Tee
  54. And the Mice Made Marriage All Night
  55. Vinegar on Chalk
  56. Autobiographophobia
  57. Sugar Spoon
  58. A Clearing, a Meadow, in Deep Forest
  59. Notes
  60. About the Author
  61. Connect with HMH