God Particles. Poems

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 of imaginative verse. While themes of intolerance, inhumanity, loss, and a deep sense of mortality mark these poems about life and death, 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 .