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<p><p>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.<p></p><h3>James Beschta - KLIATT</h3><p>Thomas Lux is one of the most innovative and noteworthy voices in American poetry today, an author whose work is never at risk of being stereotypical or conventional. Even his titles, which often serve as the first lines of poems, are uniquely intriguing: "A Bird, Whose Wingtips Were on Fire," and "Unlike, for Example, the Sound / of a Riptooth Saw." Lux is daring in language: over 25 percent of the poem "Bonehead" consists of that same word, and he is precise, vivid, even startling in his descriptions. "But if a ball crossed his line, / as one did in 1956 / and another in 1958, / it came back coleslaw ..." Yet it is his effective understatement, his unusual

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Author

Lux, Thomas, 1946-

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780618257508

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.79 / 5 (97 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14