God Particles

The recipient of three NEA grants, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Award, Thomas Lux is considered among the upper echelon of poets working today. In "God Particles," Lux presents the eleventh book of poetryin his impressive and ever-growing body of work. Though many of the poems published here deal with heavy themes such as inhumanity, intolerance, loss, and mortality, they are tempered by a lighthearted grace that soothes during even the darkest times. 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..." Dark, touching, and intimate, "God Particles" is a consummate book of poems.