Half Promised Land Pa |
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Author:
| Lux, Thomas |
ISBN: | 978-0-395-38256-1 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1940 |
Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $5.95 |
Book Description:
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The world displayed in the poems of Thomas Lux is a fairly dangerous place, a half promised land, a region where turtles languish of thirst, where a lifebuoy crawls with spiders, where a moving car hits a moving moose and both survive, where what tends to terrify us tends also to make us feel safe, where "rattlesnakes feel at home," where "your belief in justice/merges with your belief in dreams."
The world displayed in the poems of Thomas Lux is a fairly dangerous place, a half promised land, a region where turtles languish of thirst, where a lifebuoy crawls with spiders, where a moving car hits a moving moose and both survive, where what tends to terrify us tends also to make us feel safe, where "rattlesnakes feel at home," where "your belief in justice/merges with your belief in dreams."