{"product_id":"child-made-of-sand-poems-hardcover","title":"Child Made of Sand: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Lux\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReader's familiar with Thomas Lux's quick-witted images (\"Language without simile is like a lung\/ without air\") and his rambunctious, Cirque-Du-Soleil-like imagination (\"The Under-Appreciated Pontooniers\") will find in his new collection, \u003ci\u003eChild Made of Sand\u003c\/i\u003e, not only the signature funny, provocative, and poignant super-surrealism that has made him, along with Charles Simic, James Tate, and Dean Young, one of America's most inventive and humane poets, but they will also find in a surprising series of homages, elegies, rants, and autobiographical poems a new register of language in which time and mortality echo and reverberate in quieter notes. In \"West Shining Tree,\" we can hear this shift in register when he asks: \"I'll head dead West and ask of all I see: \/ Which is the way, the long or the short way, \/ to the West Shining Tree?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders familiar with Thomas Lux s quick-witted images ( Language without simile is like a lung \/ without air ) and his rambunctious, Cirque-Du-Soleil-like imagination ( The Under-Appreciated Pontooniers ) will find in his new collection, \u003ci\u003eChild Made of Sand\u003c\/i\u003e, not only the signature funny, provocative, and poignant imaginative realism that has made him one of America s most inventive and humane poets, but also will find in a surprising series of homages, elegies, rants, and autobiographical poems a new register of language in which time and mortality echo and reverberate in quieter notes. In West Shining Tree, we can hear this shift in register when he asks: I ll head dead West and ask of all I see: \/ Which is the way, the long or the short way, \/ to the West Shining Tree? \u003ci\u003eChild Made of Sand\u003c\/i\u003e, Lux s twelfth full-length book of poems, demonstrates a restless energy to explore new territory, while confirming his place in the pantheon of contemporary American poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Child Made of Sand, Thomas Lux confirms his place in the pantheon of contemporary American poetry. \u003cbr\u003ePraise for Thomas Lux: \u003cbr\u003e One of the few poets writing today who fills me with envy. Billy Collins, New York Post \u003cbr\u003e One of this generation s most gifted poets. Washington Post Book World \u003cbr\u003e\"[Lux is] sui generis, his own kind of poet, unlike any of the fashions of his time.\" Stanley Kunitz\u003cbr\u003e Lux prizes simplicity in language, and his deceptively plainspoken style allows for powerful images Lucid and morally urgent poems. Elizabeth Hoover, Los Angeles Times \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 27, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377679262003,"sku":"9780547580982","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/C5dbZRk5fa9780547580982.webp?v=1779326070","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/child-made-of-sand-poems-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}