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About the Author
Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in December 1946, to working-class parents. He was raised on a dairy farm. He studied at Emerson College, Boston, and later, briefly, at the University of Iowa. He taught for 27 years at Sarah Lawrence College, has done spells of teaching at many other universities across the States, and is now Bourne Professor of Poetry and director of Poetry@Tech at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
He has published twelve collections of poetry. His “switchover” collection was Half Promised Land in 1986, which marked a sea change in his work. Split Horizon in 1994 won him the Kingsley-Tufts Award, making it possible for him to devote much more time and energy to his poetry at a crucial stage in the evolution of his work. His later books include New and Selected Poems 1975-1995, published in 1997, which shows the poet before and after his “recovery” from Surrealism, and was followed by The Street of Clocks (2001), The Cradle Place (2004), God Particles (2008) and Child Made of Sand (2012). He has published two books of poetry in Britain, The Street of Clocks – from Arc in 2001 – and now his Selected Poems (2014) from Bloodaxe.
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1986, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2014
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HALF PROMISED LAND
Copyright © 1986 Thomas Lux
THE DROWNED RIVER
Copyright © 1990 Thomas Lux
SPLIT HORIZON
Copyright © 1994 Thomas Lux
NEW AND SELECTED POEMS: 1975-1995
Copyright © 1997 Thomas Lux
THE STREET OF CLOCKS
Copyright © 2001 Thomas Lux
THE CRADLE PLACE
Copyright © 2004 Thomas Lux
GOD PARTICLES
Copyright © 2008 Thomas Lux
CHILD MADE OF SAND
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Lux
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