Book review: The Cradle Place by Thomas Lux

Book review: The Cradle Place by Thomas Lux

clunky is the word…

 

 

Book review:

The Cradle Place

 

by Thomas Lux (1946-2017)

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004

61 pages

 

Some folks think Thomas Lux deserves to be a prize winner.

Not likely. He offers joyfully erratic, uncivil, and unimaginable poems.

Lux inclines to clunky excess in his descriptions. No spirits are born in The Cradle Place.

Although the jacket notes refer to “refreshing iconoclasms,” I couldn’t find any.

Mary Oliver doesn’t have to move over…

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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2018 All rights reserved.

 

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