" 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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