God Particles

by Thomas Lux

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618931821
• ISBN13: 9780618931828
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.1"