Half Promised Land Pa

By Thomas Lux

Book Overview

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."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395382564
• ISBN13: 9780395382561
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

I carry this book with me everywhere!

This is one of my favorite books of poetry. Lux's poems are seemingly simple and sweet upon first reading, but repeated readings reveal the deeper, more cynical, more powerful side of his poems. I especially like "The Milkman," a beautiful poem on the relations between a man and his son.