Thomas Lux
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| Born | December 10, 1946 Northampton, Massachusetts |
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Thomas Lux (born December 10, 1946) is an American poet.
[edit] Biography
Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, son of a milkman and a Sears & Roebuck switchboard operator, neither of whom graduated from high school. Lux was raised in Massachusetts on a dairy farm. He was, according to those who knew him in high school, very good at baseball, basketball and golf. Classmates also recall that he had a " Terrific sense of humor. "
He graduated from Emerson College in Boston, where he was also poet in residence from 1972-1975. His first book — Memory's Handgrenade — was published shortly after. Since 1975, Lux has been a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. Lux is also a core faculty member of the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers. In 1996 he was a visiting professor at University of California, Irvine. A former Guggenheim Fellow and three times a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lux received, in 1995, the $50,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his sixth collection, Split Horizons. His poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies.
He currently holds the Bourne chair in poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and runs their Poetry at Tech program.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Land Sighted (chapbook, 1970)
- Memory's Handgrenade (1972)
- Madrigal on the Way Home (chapbook, 1976)
- The Glassblower's Breath (1976)
- Sunday (1979)
- Like a Wide Anvil from the Moon the Light (chapbook, 1980)
- Massachusetts (chapbook, 1981)
- Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy (chapbook, 1983)
- Half Promised Land (1986)
- The Drowned River (1990)
- A Boat in the Forest (chapbook, 1992)
- Pecked to Death by Swans (chapbook, 1993)
- Split Horizon (1994)
- The Blind Swimmer: Selected Early Poems, 1970-1975 (1996)
- New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995 (1997)
- The Street of Clocks (2001)
- The Cradle Place (2004)
- God Particles (2008)
