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The poems gathered here are lyrical monologues, urgently delivered by a narrator who both loves the world and has intense quarrels with it. Often set against a vivid landscape--the rural America of Thomas 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. They address the snakes, parrots, or sand fleas living there, as well as their human cohabitants, who are sometimes benign...and sometimes emphatically not so. The language is distilled and musical, lucid and strange, playful and dead serious, and always specific.

"The kind of self-absorbed language that often keeps readers at a distance cannot be found in this lovely collection of poems...."

Stephen Whited, Book, July/August 2001

"[O]ffers a quieter, more cerebral poetry than before....The tension between emotion and rationality, fact and commentary, charm and bitterness is what charges this book. There are a number of superb poems, "Cucumber Fields Crossed by High-Tention Wires," "The Road that Runs Beside the River," The Fish-Stewn Fields," in which everything is in balance and the language erupts. THE STREET OF CLOCKS is a daring step forward for Lux, an attempt to build upon his achievement rather than merely duplicating it."

Floyd Skloot, Harvard Review, Fall 2001

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