Reviews for The Street of Clocks: Poems

The average rating for The Street of Clocks: Poems based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-02-08 00:00:00 Joe Black In the wake of Tom's sudden death, I reread some of the books I don't know quite so well. This book captures Lux in all his ironic, somewhat off kilter, darkly humorous poems that he manages to pack with pathos and a wry shaking of the head at what it means to be human--our cruelty and hipocrisy and joy.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-02-27 00:00:00 Kenneth Freivokh It's not often that a book of poetry leaves me feeling detached. Thomas Lux was recommended to me by several people whose judgement I trust, so I added him to my 'to-read' list and started with this one. I'm not sure I chose well. It's not that I felt that there was no talent behind the verse. It's just that most of the time when I would finish a poem in this collection, I would just move on to the next one, unaffected. That said, the poem at the end of the collection, "The Corner of Paris and Porter" almost made me move the review up a star. I felt that it was an excellent poem. I just wasn't sure if that was worth a whole star by itself. Also - I did learn that apparently madness caused by the wind was a viable murder defense in Wyoming in the 1850's. I can believe it.