"[Lux is] sui generis, his own kind of poet, unlike any of the
fashions of his time." - Stanley Kunitz
Thomas Lux is humorous, edgy, and ever surprising in The Cradle
Place, his tenth collection of verse. These fifty-two poems
question language and intention and the sometimes untidy
connections between the human and natural worlds. Lux has long been
an outspoken advocate for the relevance of poetry in American
culture, and his voice is urgent and unrelentingly evocative. As
Sven Birkerts has noted, "Lux may be one of the poets on whom the
future of the genre depends."
"A book full of arresting images . . . The natural world, as it
appears here, is at first lovely . . . but turns out dangerously
vanquished . . . Not since Plath has hysteria looked this
kissable." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Lux has a gift for the swiftly turned expression . . . Such
immediacy and quirkiness will hold a reader." - Poetry
"Readers will be mesmerized." - Poetry Book of the Year, Library
Journal
THOMAS LUX holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry and is director of the
McEver Visiting Writers Program at the 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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