Half Promised Land
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The world displayed in the poems of Thomas Lux is a fairly dangerous place, a half promised land, a region where turtles languish of thirst, where a lifebuoy crawls with spiders, where a moving car... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0395382556
ISBN13:9780395382554
Release Date:January 1986
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin
Length:72 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Customer Reviews
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I carry this book with me everywhere!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This is one of my favorite books of poetry. Lux's poems are seemingly simple and sweet upon first reading, but repeated readings reveal the deeper, more cynical, more powerful side of his poems. I especially like "The Milkman," a beautiful poem on the relations between a man and his son.
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