Half Promised Land

Thomas Lux

• Publisher: Ecco
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780544936867
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

The world displayed in the poems of ThomasLux is a fairly dangerous place, a half promisedland, a region where turtles languish of thirst, where a lifebuoy crawls with spiders, where amoving car hits a moving moose and bothsurvive, where what tends to terrify us tendsalso to make us feel safe, where "rattlesnakesfeel at home, " where "your belief in justice/merges with your belief in dreams."

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• I
• The Milkman and His Son
• Empty Pitchforks
• Night Above the Town
• Sailing, Islands
• The Crows of Boston and New York
• The Fourth Grade
• Sleepmask Dithyrambic
• The Thirst of Turtles
• Sleep for Bears
• Somebody’s Aunt Swabbing Her Birdbath
• Give It to the Wind
• Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy
• II
• Early On, This Decade’s Light Smelled
• His Job is Honest and Simple
• It’s the Little Towns I Like
• At the Far End of a Long Wharf
• The Night So Bright a Squirrel Reads
• You Go to School to Learn
• If I Die Before I Wake
• There Were Some Summers
• His Spine Curved Just Enough
• Moon-Annoyed, Cognac’s Ashen Thrill
• It Must Be the Monk in Me
• After a Few Whiffs of Another World
• The Dark Comes On in Blocks, in Cubes
• Like a Wide Anvil from the Moon the Light
• Beneath the Apple Branches Bent Dumbly
• III
• Hospital View
• The Oxymoron Sisters
• Dr. Goebbels’s Novels
• A Tenth of a Cent a Stitch
• The Great Books of the Dead
• On Resumption of the Military Draft
• When I’m Gone
• The Swimming Pool
• Via Posthumia
• Snake Lake
• Wife Hits Moose
• Pedestrian
• IV
• Triptych, Middle Panel Burning
• About the Author
• Connect with HMH