Cradle Place : Poems

In these fifty-two poems, which make up his tenth collection of verse, Thomas Lux's voice is humorous, edgy, and ever surprising. These are philosophical poems that ask questions about language and intention, about the sometimes untidy connections between the human and natural worlds. Lux has long been an outspoken advocate for the relevance of poetry in American culture, and his voice is urgent and unrelentingly evocative. As Sven Birkerts has noted, "Lux may be one of the poets on whom the future of the genre depends."

Thomas Lux holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry and is the director of the McEver Visiting Writers Program at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been awarded three NEA grants and the Kingsley Tufts Award and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Atlanta.


The Late Ambassadorial Light	p. 3
Say You're Breathing	p. 4
Dry Bite	p. 5
Horse Bleeding to Death at Full Gallop	p. 6
Debate Regarding the Permissibility of Eating Mermaids	p. 7
The Professor of Ants	p. 8
Tactile	p. 9
Ten Years Hard Labor on a Guano Island	p. 10
Family Photo Around Xmas Tree	p. 11
Rather	p. 12
Portrait of X [III]	p. 13
Three Vials of Maggots	p. 14
Uncle Dung Beetle	p. 15
The Gletz	p. 16
Can Tie Shoes But Won't	p. 17
The American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association	p. 18
To Help the Monkey Cross the River	p. 19
The Devil's Beef Tub	p. 20
Boatloads of Mummies	p. 21
Thus, He Spoke His Quietus	p. 22
The Magna Chamber	p. 23
Birds Nailed to Trees	p. 24

Guide for the Perpetually Perplexed	p. 27
If One Can Be Seen	p. 28
The Year the Locust Hath Eaten	p. 29
Burned Forests and Horses' Bones	p. 30
Letter to Walt Whitman from a Soldier He Nursed in Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1866	p. 32
Scorpions Everywhere	p. 33
Myope	p. 34

To Plow and Plant the Seashore	p. 37
Amphribrach Dance	p. 38
Remora	p. 39
National Impalement Statistics	p. 40
Asafetida	p. 41
174517: Primo Levi, an Elegy	p. 42
Goofer-Dust	p. 43
With Maeterlinck's Great Book	p. 44
Terminal Lake	p. 45
The Chief Attendant of the Napkin	p. 46
The Mountains in the River on the Way to the Sea	p. 48
Reject What Confuses You	p. 49
Flies So Thick above the Corpses in the Rubble, the Soldiers Must Use Flamethrowers to Pass Through	p. 50
The Ice Worm's Life	p. 51
Provincia Aurifera	p. 52
I Will Please, Said the Placebo	p. 53
Hospitality and Revenge	p. 54
From the High Ground	p. 55
Dystopia	p. 56
Monkey Butter	p. 57
Breakbone Fever	p. 58
Can't Sleep the Clowns Will Eat Me	p. 59
Render, Render	p. 60
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