Thomas Lux (1946 - Present)

Thomas Lux is an American poet born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1946.

Poems By Thomas Lux

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“I Love You Sweatheart” (1 Comment »)
A Kiss (1 Comment »)
A Library Of Skulls (No Comments »)
Gorgeous Surfaces (No Comments »)
He Has Lived In Many Houses (No Comments »)
Henry Clay’s Mouth (1 Comment »)
Lucky (No Comments »)
Motel Seedy (1 Comment »)
Refrigerator, 1957 (No Comments »)
The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball (No Comments »)
Torn Shades (No Comments »)
Virgule (No Comments »)

APR M/J 1999

Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City (No Comments »)

The Drowned River

A Little Tooth (2 Comments »)

The Streets of Clocks

Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down (1 Comment »)
The Road That Runs Beside The River (No Comments »)
Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw (No Comments »)
Analysis, meaning and summary of Thomas Lux's poem Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw
One of the New York Public Library's 25 "Books to Remember" in 1997 Lux comments on the absurd, the pathetic, and the commonplace in our culture, writing with compassion as well as satire. He is "singular among his peers in his ability to convey with...
New and Selected Poems of Thomas Lux: 1975-1995
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A brilliant new collection of poems by Kingsley Tufts Award–winning poet Thomas Lux With To the Left of Time, Thomas Lux adds more than fifty new poems to his celebrated oeuvre. Broken into three sections, these include semi-autobiographical poems...
To the Left of Time
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After starting out as a neo-surrealist American poet in the 1970s, Thomas Lux 'drifted away from surrealism and the arbitrariness of all that. I got more interested in subjects, identifiable subjects other than my own angst or ennui.' The later Lux w...
Selected Poems
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After starting out as a neo-surrealist American poet in the 1970s, Thomas Lux 'drifted away from sur... read more
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Poetry. This book is a selection of poems from early in the career of Thomas Lux, who has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Lux has been the poet-in-residence at Eme...
The Blind Swimmer: Early Selected Poems 1970 - 197...
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Poetry. This book is a selection of poems from early in the career of Thomas Lux, who has received a... read more
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Thomas Lux is the author of such books as Sunday, Half Promised Land, and The Drowned River. His poetry has been steadily growing and penetrating deeper into the plain-spoken, saturnine, witty language that he virtually invented. In his latest work, ...
Split Horizon
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