Literary Nonfiction. FROM THE SOUTHLAND is the nonfiction debut from award-winning poet, Thomas Lux, author of more than eleven books of poetry. Lux turns that same unique lens he uses to make those i
With To the Left of Time, Thomas Lux adds over fifty new poems to his celebrated oeuvre. Broken into three sections, these include autobiographical poems, odes, and a final section that delves into a
A mesmerizing collection of poems set against the vivid landscape of rural America, speaking from rivers and swamps, deserts and lawns, jungles and the depths of the sea and addressing all the creatur
God Particles displays the distinctive originality and unpredictability that prompted the Washington Post Book World to name Lux one of this generation’s most gifted poets. A satiric edge, tempered by
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 Pontooni
"[Lux is] sui generis, his own kind of poet, unlike any of the fashions of his time." – Stanley KunitzThomas Lux is humorous, edgy, and ever surprising in The Cradle Place, his tenth collection of ver
A selection of Bill Knott’s life work—testimony of his enduring, “thorny genius” (Robert Pinsky)Going to sleep, I cross my hands on my chest.They will place my hands like this.It will look as though I
"...in these poems, (there is) a family of 12 with the mother, father, and speaker as the prime characters....In a brilliant crown of sonnets, its most important character, the speaker's brother, wh
The purpose of the science of complexity is to provide, if not a unified approach, at least useful tools to tackling complex problems in various scientific domains. Generally, complexity is considered
