Street of Clocks : Poems

The Street of Clocks, Thomas Lux's first all-new collection since 1994, is a significant addition to the work of an utterly original, highly accomplished poet. The poems gathered here are delivered by a narrator who both loves the world and has intense quarrels with it. Often set against vivid landscapes - the rural America of Lux's childhood and unidentified places south of the border - these poems speak from rivers and swamps, deserts and lawns, jungles and the depths of the sea.

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.

Cucumber Fields Crossed by High-Tension Wires	p. 1
The Man into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball	p. 2
Plague Victims Catapulted over Walls into Besieged City	p. 3
Bonehead	p. 4
Beauty School	p. 5
In the Bedroom above the Embalming Room	p. 6
So We Can See the Snakes Coming	p. 7
Thomas the Broken-Mouthed	p. 8
The Handsome Swamp	p. 9
The Blister Test	p. 10
From Grade School Window, Watching Local Bookie Arrested	p. 11
Grain Burning Far Away	p. 12
The Doldrum Fracture Zone	p. 13
The Nerve Doctors	p. 14
The Poison Shirt	p. 15
The Road That Runs Beside the River	p. 16
A Kiss	p. 17
A Bird, Whose Wingtips Were on Fire	p. 18
Shotgun Loaded with Rock Salt	p. 20
Slimehead (Hoplostethus atlanticus)	p. 21
Pre-Cerebral	p. 22
Salve	p. 23
Jungleside	p. 24
Regarding (Most) Songs	p. 25
A Voiceless Parrot Learns to Read and Write and Play the Trumpet	p. 26
Beggar's Bowl Stolen	p. 27
A Man Gets Off Work Early	p. 28
Baby, Still Crying, Swallowed by a Snake	p. 29
Rommel's Asparagus	p. 30
Plastic Castle in Goldfish Bowl	p. 31
Stubblefield Dusted with Snow	p. 32
The Downslope Winds	p. 33
A Library of Skulls	p. 34
Marine Snow at Mid-Depths and Down	p. 36
An Erg	p. 37
The War of Jenkins's Ear (1739-1741)	p. 38
Lucky	p. 39
The Fish-Strewn Fields	p. 40
Shoreless	p. 41
Unlike, for Example, the Sound of a Riptooth Saw	p. 42
Cordon Sanitaire	p. 43
Henry Clay's Mouth	p. 44
The Language Animal	p. 45
Pencil Box Shaped Like a Gun	p. 46
The Corner of Paris and Porter	p. 48
The Bandage Factory	p. 50
Notes	p. 51
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