Child Made of Sand: Poems - Hardcover

by Thomas Lux (Author)

Reader's familiar with Thomas Lux's quick-witted images ("Language without simile is like a lung/ without air") and his rambunctious, Cirque-Du-Soleil-like imagination ("The Under-Appreciated Pontooniers") 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 America's 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 "West Shining Tree," we can hear this shift in register when he asks: "I'll head dead West and ask of all I see: / Which is the way, the long or the short way, / to the West Shining Tree?"

Front Jacket

Readers familiar with Thomas Lux s quick-witted images ( Language without simile is like a lung / without air ) and his rambunctious, Cirque-Du-Soleil-like imagination ( The Under-Appreciated Pontooniers ) will find in his new collection, Child Made of Sand, not only the signature funny, provocative, and poignant imaginative realism that has made him one of America s most inventive and humane poets, but also will 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 West Shining Tree, we can hear this shift in register when he asks: I ll head dead West and ask of all I see: / Which is the way, the long or the short way, / to the West Shining Tree? Child Made of Sand, Lux s twelfth full-length book of poems, demonstrates a restless energy to explore new territory, while confirming his place in the pantheon of contemporary American poetry.
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Back Jacket

In Child Made of Sand, Thomas Lux confirms his place in the pantheon of contemporary American poetry.
Praise for Thomas Lux:
One of the few poets writing today who fills me with envy. Billy Collins, New York Post
One of this generation s most gifted poets. Washington Post Book World
"[Lux is] sui generis, his own kind of poet, unlike any of the fashions of his time." Stanley Kunitz
Lux prizes simplicity in language, and his deceptively plainspoken style allows for powerful images Lucid and morally urgent poems. Elizabeth Hoover, Los Angeles Times

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