God Particles displays the distinctive originality and unpredictability that prompted the Washington Post Book World to name Lux one of this generation's most gifted poets. A satiric edge, tempered by profound compassion, cuts through many of the poems in Lux's book. While themes of intolerance, inhumanity, loss, and a deep sense of mortality mark these poems, a lighthearted grace instills even the somberest moments with unexpected sweetness. In the title poem Lux writes, "there's no reason for God to feel guilt / I think He was downhearted, weary, too weary / to be angry anymore . . . / He wanted each of us, / and all the things we touch . . . / to have a tiny piece of Him / though we are unqualified, / of even the crumb of a crumb." Dark, humorous, and strikingly imaginative, this is Lux's most compassionate work to date.

Author: Thomas Lux
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 03/17/2008
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.36w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780618931828


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/25/2008 pg. 55
Booklist 03/15/2008 pg. 17
Library Journal 05/01/2008 pg. 69
Christian Century 05/04/2010 pg. 48