Half Promised Land Pa

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 hits a moving moose and both survive, where what tends to terrify us tends also to make us feel safe, where "rattlesnakes feel at home," where "your belief in justice/merges with your belief in dreams."

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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 hits a moving moose and both survive, where what tends to terrify us tends also to make us feel safe, where "rattlesnakes feel at home,” where "your belief in justice/merges with your belief in dreams."

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Thomas Lux
• Edition: Harper Collins (US)
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 15.05.1986
• EAN: 9780395382561
• ISBN: 978-0-395-38256-1
• Thème: Houghton Mifflin
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; Poetry, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Aspects of religion, Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Poetry anthologies (various poets), RELIGION: Inspirational, POETRY: American / General, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, POETRY: Women Authors, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, POETRY: Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Places, POETRY: Haiku *, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Family, Poetry by form: Haiku