Sunday: Poems

Lux, Thomas

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Sunday

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Mariner Books

Poems deal with snow, the family, mortality, grief, torture, history, warfare, food, travel and vanity

DROWNED RIVER

The Drowned River

Split Horizon

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, Lux's level gaze, cool talk, weird rhythms, and quirky humor place him in a special territory - entirely original - of contemporary American poetry. These new poems, like the book itself, have unusual titles ("Loudmouth Soup, " "Virgule, " "Each Startled Touch Returns the Touch Unstartled") and circle around their subjects in strange ways, most often dealing with the lonely oddity of the individual in a society that inflexibly ignores individuality.

Essays & Correspondence

Ecco

In his unique style, based on his perceptions of nature, Thomas Lux writes with humor and irony about the delights and dysfunctions of a society that ignores individuality, including titles such as "Endive," "The People of the Other Village," and "Virgule."

The author of the Kingsley-Tufts award-winning Split Horizon presents new and favorite poems about such topics as the challenges of commercial leech farming and cocking a snook.

New and Selected Poems: 1975-1995

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 a deceptive lightness the paradoxes of human emotion," says Publishers Weekly, and Robert Hass, in the Washington Post Book World, takes special note of Lux's "bitter wit, the kind of irony that comes with a quick, impatient intelligence."

New And Selected Poems Of Thomas Lux: 1975-1995

Literary

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, odes, and a final section that delves into a variety of subjects reflective of Lux’s imaginative range. Full of his characteristic satire and humor, this new collection promises laughter and profound insight into the human condition. To the Left of Time is a powerful addition to the work of one who has been widely praised for his ability to offer image- and metaphor-driven visions as well as lines of plain language and immediacy. This collection proves that Lux’s work will continue to inspire readers for decades to come.

To The Left Of Time

Genre Fiction

Reader’s familiar with Thomas Lux’s quick-witted images ("Language without simile is like a lung/ without air") and his rambunctious, Cirque-Du-Soleil-like imagination ("The Under-Appreciated Pontooniers") will find in his new collection, Child Made of Sand, not only the signature funny, provocative, and poignant super-surrealism that has made him, along with Charles Simic, James Tate, and Dean Young, one of America’s most inventive and humane poets, but they will also find in a surprising series of homages, elegies, rants, and autobiographical poems a new register of language in which time and mortality echo and reverberate in quieter notes. In "West Shining Tree," we can hear this shift in register when he asks: "I’ll head dead West and ask of all I see:/ Which is the way, the long or the short way,/ to the West Shining Tree?"

Child Made of Sand: Poems

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Sunday: Poems

Sunday

DROWNED RIVER

The Drowned River

Split Horizon

Split Horizon

New and Selected Poems: 1975-1995

New And Selected Poems Of Thomas Lux: 1975-1995

To The Left Of Time

Child Made of Sand: Poems