God Particles

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.