The Street of Clocks: Poems: Poems – The First Collection Since 1994 Set in the Vivid Landscapes of America - Softcover

Lux, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618257500 ISBN 13: 9780618257508

Verlag: Mariner Books, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

The Street of Clocks, Thomas Lux's first all-new collection since 1994, is a significant addition to the work of an utterly original, highly accomplished poet. The poems gathered here are delivered by a narrator who both loves the world and has intense quarrels with it. Often set against vivid landscapes - the rural America of Lux's childhood and unidentified places south of the border - these poems speak from rivers and swamps, deserts and lawns, jungles and the depths of the sea.

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THOMAS LUX holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry and is the director of the McEver Visiting Writers Program at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been awarded three NEA grants and the Kingsley Tufts Award and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Atlanta.

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The Street of Clocks

By Thomas Lux

Mariner Books

Copyright © 2003 Thomas Lux
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ISBN: 0618257500

Excerpt

Cucumber Fields Crossed
by High-Tension Wires


The high-tension spires spike the sky
beneath which boys bend
to pick from prickly vines
the deep-sopped fruit, the rind"s green
a green sunk
in green. They part the plants" leaves,
reach into the nest,
and pull out mother, father, fat Uncle Phil.
The smaller yellow-green children stay,
for now. The fruit goes
in baskets by the side of the row,
every thirty feet or so. By these bushels
the boys get paid, in cash,
at day"s end, this summer
of the last days of the empire
that will become known as
the past, adios, then,
the ragged-edged beautiful blink.


Copyright © 2001 by Thomas Lux

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0618257500
• ISBN 13: 9780618257508
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64
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