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Lädt ... The Cradle Place: Poems (Original 2004; 2004. Auflage)von Thomas Lux (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Lux writes with humor, beauty, and compelling choice of language. Most of the poems seem to contemplate various facets of nature and their connection to each other and humanity, but there are also poems that have absurd and surrealist bents to them. A few misses here and there, but overall very enjoyable and worthwhile! ( ) I would say this is typical Tom Lux, but perhaps a little more diluted than The Drowned River. There are 50 or so poems, each a page or less--and thankfully they fit on a single page unlike some of his books where they leave 5-10 lines on the top of the second page, making a bit of a hard transition. This one seemed more abstract, and only 70% of them or so (a guess) are about weird historical or scientific facts and weaving them into a current or historical live and making them relevant or intriguing. It did seem the end of the poems sort of went off into another space, so I would guess a more savvy mind might have some interest in the inter-poem transitions. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The Cradle Place is a collection from Thomas Lux, a self-described "recovering surrealist" and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award. These fifty-two poems bring to full life the "refreshing iconoclasms" Rita Dove so admired in Lux's earlier work. His voice is plainspoken but moody, humorous and edgy, and ever surprising. These are philosophical poems that ask questions about language and intention, about the sometimes untidy connections between the human and natural worlds. In the poem "Terminal Lake," Lux undermines notions of benign nature, finding dark currents beneath the surface: "it's a huge black coin, / it's as if the real lake is drained / and this lake is the drain: gaping, language- / less, suck- and sinkhole." In the ominous "Render, Render," the narrator asks us to consider a concentration of the essences of our lives: all that is physical, spiritual, remembered, and dreamed for, melded together to make the messy self we present to the world. Lux's voice is intelligent without being bookish, urgent and unrelentingly evocative. He has long been a strong advocate for the relevance of poetry in American culture. The Los Angeles Times praises Lux for his "compelling rhythms, his biting irony, and his steady devotion to a craft that often seems thankless." As Sven Birkerts noted, "Lux may be one of the poets on whom the future of the genre depends." Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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