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 Emerson College and a faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. "He has control, he throws his grenades with deadly accuracy and an almost perfect sense of timing. The poems explode into the reader's brain, permanently embedded"-Cynthia Macdonald. Lux is the author of nineteen poetry books and chapbooks.