God Particles（ISBN=） 英文原版

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.

I
  The Gentleman Who Spoke Like Music
  Behind the Horseman Sits Black Care
  The Hungry Gap-Time
  Hitler’s Slippers 
  Sleep’s Ambulance 
  Lump of Sugar on an Anthill 
  Stink Eye
  The Lead Hour
  The First Song
  Peacocks in Twilight
  Nolens Volens (Whether Willing or Unwilling) 
  Gravy Boat Goes over Waterfall 
  The General Law of Oblivion
  Midmorning
  Put the Bandage on the Sword and Not the Wound
  The Harmonic Scalpel 
  The Republic of Anesthesia
  Man Pedaling Next to His Bicycle
  Her Hat, That Party on Her Head
  Eyes Scooped Out and Replaced by Hot Coals
  The Pier Aspiring
II
   God Particles
   Their Feet Shall Slide in Due Time
   Invective
   Jesus’ Baby Teeth
   How Difficult
   Apology to My Neighbors for Beheading Their Duck
   Antinomianism
   5,495
   The Utopian Wars
   The Joy-Bringer

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