{"product_id":"child-made-of-sand-poems-9780547580982","title":"Child Made of Sand: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eReader's familiar with Thomas Lux's quick-witted images (\"Language without simile is like a lung\/ without air\") and his rambunctious, Cirque-Du-Soleil-like imagination (\"The Under-Appreciated Pontooniers\") will find in his new collection, \u003ci\u003eChild Made of Sand\u003c\/i\u003e, not only the signature funny, provocative, and poignant super-surrealism that has made him, along with Charles Simic, James Tate, and Dean Young, one of America's most inventive and humane poets, but they will also find in a surprising series of homages, elegies, rants, and autobiographical poems a new register of language in which time and mortality echo and reverberate in quieter notes. In \"West Shining Tree,\" we can hear this shift in register when he asks: \"I'll head dead West and ask of all I see: \/ Which is the way, the long or the short way, \/ to the West Shining Tree?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Lux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Houghton Mifflin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.6lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780547580982\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46761365373065,"sku":"9780547580982","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_6512595f-9aae-4348-b99d-d24ee24cc0a8.jpg?v=1779166969","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/child-made-of-sand-poems-9780547580982","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}