Child Made Of Sand
Author | : Thomas Lux |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 2012-11-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780547581019 |
ISBN-13 | : 0547581017 |
Rating | : 4/5 (017 Downloads) |
Download or read book Child Made Of Sand written by Thomas Lux and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?"