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The world displayed in the poems of Thomas Lux is a fairly dangerous place, a half promised land, a region where turtles languish of thirst, where a lifebuoy crawls with spiders, where a moving car hits a moving moose and both survive, where what tends to terrify us tends also to make us feel safe, where "rattlesnakes feel at home,” where "your belief in justice/merges with your belief in dreams."
In these searing and empathetic poems, Lux charts a landscape that is both familiar and unnervingly strange.
- Surreal Imagery: Witness a world where tarantulas cling to lifebuoys and a collision between a car and a moose ends not in tragedy, but in mutual survival.
- Dark Humor: Discover a wry, unsentimental humor in poems about childhood pranks with electric fences and the strange etiquette of the afterlife.
- Observational Poetry: A tribute to the small towns, overlooked moments, and quiet lives of a distinctly American landscape, rendered with unflinching clarity.
- Contemporary American Poetry: A masterwork from a defining voice in late 20th-century poetry, perfect for readers of James Wright, Charles Simic, and Philip Levine.
The world displayed in the poems of Thomas Lux is a fairly dangerous place, a half promised land, a region where turtles languish of thirst, where a lifebuoy crawls with spiders, where a moving car hits a moving moose and both survive, where what tends to terrify us tends also to make us feel saf...
About the author
THOMAS LUX holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry and is the director of the McEver Visiting Writers Program at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been awarded three NEA grants and the Kingsley Tufts Award and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Atlanta.
THOMAS LUX holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry and is the director of the McEver Visiting Writers Program at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been awarded three NEA grants and the Kingsley Tufts Award and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Atlanta.
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