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Poems
Houghton Mifflin
March 2008
On Sale: April 29, 2008
80 pages
ISBN: 0618931821
EAN: 9780618931828
Hardcover
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Fiction Poetry
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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