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Thomas Lux (1) (1946–2017)

Auteur de New and Selected Poems of Thomas Lux: 1975-1995

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21+ oeuvres 386 utilisateurs 6 critiques

A propos de l'auteur

Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts on December 10, 1946. He graduated from Emerson College in Boston. He was a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College for 25 years before becoming the Bourne Professor of Poetry at Georgia Tech in 2001. He was also the director of the afficher plus McEver Visiting Writers program at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the director of Poetry@Tech. His first collection of poetry, Memory's Handgrenade, was published in 1972. His other collections of poetry include To the Left of Time, New and Selected Poems of Thomas Lux: 1975-1995, God Particles, Child Made of Sand, The Street of Clocks, and From the Southland. In 1994, he won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for the collection Split Horizon. He died February 5, 2017 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Thomas Lux [credit: University of Kiel]

Œuvres de Thomas Lux

The Street of Clocks: Poems (2001) 44 exemplaires
Split Horizon (1994) 43 exemplaires
The Cradle Place: Poems (2004) 37 exemplaires
The Drowned River (1990) 27 exemplaires
God Particles: Poems (2008) 26 exemplaires
Half Promised Land (1986) 21 exemplaires
To the Left of Time (2016) 15 exemplaires
Sunday : poems (1979) 11 exemplaires
Child Made of Sand: Poems (2012) 9 exemplaires
The Glassblower's Breath (1976) 9 exemplaires
Selected Poems (2014) 7 exemplaires
A Boat in the Forest (1992) 5 exemplaires
Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy (1983) 3 exemplaires
Massachusetts: Ten Poems (1981) 3 exemplaires
Pecked to Death by Swans (1993) 2 exemplaires
Memory's Handgrenade (1972) 2 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Contributeur — 770 exemplaires
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005) — Contributeur — 365 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2000 (2000) — Contributeur — 213 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2006 (2006) — Contributeur — 189 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2009 (2009) — Contributeur — 133 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 1993 (1993) — Contributeur — 129 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2016 (2016) — Contributeur — 103 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2013 (2013) — Contributeur — 82 exemplaires
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Contributeur — 63 exemplaires
Handspan of Red Earth: An Anthology of American Farm Poems (1991) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires

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Partage des connaissances

Date de naissance
1946-12-10
Date de décès
2017-02-05
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Lieu de naissance
Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Études
Emerson College
Professions
poet
Organisations
Georgia Institute of Technology
Sarah Lawrence College

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Critiques

Lux writes with humor, beauty, and compelling choice of language. Most of the poems seem to contemplate various facets of nature and their connection to each other and humanity, but there are also poems that have absurd and surrealist bents to them. A few misses here and there, but overall very enjoyable and worthwhile!
 
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Reading_Vicariously | 1 autre critique | May 22, 2023 |
This collection of 55 poems is a mix of recollections from Lux's life; appreciations for objects and people and situations; and things he’s noticed or imagined. Some have narratives that drew me in and through, and Lux continues to delight with sudden illumination -- whether of a fact or a truth -- for example, in these passages snipped from different poems:

... {Lichen} helps stone turn back to soil
so slowly the stone doesn’t notice, ...

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Grade schools’ large windows
weren’t built to let the sunlight in.
They were large to let the germs out. ...

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... I loved to touch my child’s forehead
for fever and the feeling of finding none.

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... Praise all scars, which, by definition, reveal
that something, one thing, one
thing
minimum, is healed.

(Review based on an advance reading copy provided by the publisher.)
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½
 
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DetailMuse | Mar 20, 2016 |
I was not familiar with the poetry of Thomas Lux before I received this book - I will say that after reading 'Child Made of Sand', I will definitely be looking for more of his works. This collection is all about memories, about looking back with a wiser eye on some of the most trivial yet key moments in a life. His language is quiet as he describes the unfettered emotions and mundane observations of childhood; at the same time, his line breaks are so carefully timed and his images so vividly written that even the mundane is beautiful. Lux's narrative is accessible and humorous, and surprising. He is clearly influenced by some of the great poets of the past, and pays tribute to them in his works.

My one clear criticism is that he seems to take himself a bit too seriously, and I thought some of the poems in the collection seemed less a part of the cohesive whole. I give this book 3 stars - I definitely want to read more from Lux, but I doubt this will be my favorite of his collections.
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smileydq | 1 autre critique | Oct 26, 2012 |
I’ve been exercising my poetry muscles and was excited to see this slender volume of 42 poems -- my first exposure to Thomas Lux.

It’s an accessible collection -- short, readable entries that resonate with layered meaning. In fact, many are narratives and end with surprises that pulled me right back to the first line to reread with new insight. Lux muses on disability and mortality; gives homage to poets, writers, poems and literature; reminisces; vents anger. As collections go, what strikes me here is not that I have several whole poems I’d like to post, but that I marked striking passages in a dozen poems.

Lux can delight with a single word --
Penultimatum

-- and provoke thought --
{…}the weight
of the ink (oh, I pray
not the pixels!) on an execution order


-- and get the sense detail just right --
The dust motes of mud at a pond’s bottom,
sluggish river, or swamp. The finest, most ethereal
of muds, rising in soft pinheads
from the density below; the fog of mud, what first
grips your ankle so whisperly, a little warmer
than the water above it, a satiny sock


-- and morph dimensions --
I read it all morning and I read it all night.
The next day all day
and 100 miles into the dark


-- and even rhyme --
{…} If I live a hundred lives,
then I’ll know more truths, maybe, and lies,
to write
my memoir, novella-sized.


(Review based on an advance reading copy provided by the publisher.)
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½
4 voter
Signalé
DetailMuse | 1 autre critique | Oct 4, 2012 |

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Œuvres
21
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Membres
386
Popularité
#62,660
Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
6
ISBN
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