Lux is an entertaining and inventive poet, painfully aware of the "half promised land" of death, which he opposes with a powerful imagination. We are all "taught away from poetry" in school, a situation Lux seeks to reverse by making us see through his eyes. Thus, darkness descends "like ink/ dropped in sugar." The sky becomes "a blue turtle," and an old barn begins "to buckle like an ancient mule." Lux heightens the reader's sensory awarness on every page, evoking a whole range of imagery, not merely the visual but the auditory ("the whamp , whamp of an eel bashed on a wooden wharf") and the olfactory ("smell/ of dirt on cabbage, the snow-/ on-your-arm smell"). These sensations, Lux reminds us, are precious precisely because they could be "eaten" up at any moment by "Zyklon B, rads, megatons." Highly recommended for all collections. Daniel L. Guillory, English Dept., Millikin Univ., Decatur, Ill.
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