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  • New And Selected Poems Of Thomas Lux

    1975-1995

    by Thomas Lux ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Street of Clocks

    Poems

    by Thomas Lux ...
    The Street of Clocks, Thomas Lux's first all-new collection since 1994, is a significant addition to the work of an utterly original, highly accomplished poet. The poems gathered here are delivered by a narrator who both loves the world and has intense quarrels with it. Often set against vivid landscapes - the rural America of Lux's childhood and unidentified places south of the border - these ... Read more

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  • Half Promised Land

    by Thomas Lux ...
    The world displayed in the poems of Thomas Lux is a fairly dangerous place, a half promised land, a region where turtles languish of thirst, where a lifebuoy crawls with spiders, where a moving car hits a moving moose and both survive, where what tends to terrify us tends also to make us feel safe, where "rattlesnakes feel at home,” where "your belief in justice/merges with your belief in dreams. ... Read more

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  • I Am Flying into Myself

    Selected Poems, 1960–2014

    by Bill Knott, Thomas Lux ...
    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 am flying into myself.For half a century, Bill Knott's brilliant, vaudevillian verse electrified the poetic form. Over his long career, he studiously avoided joining any one school of poetry, ... Read more

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  • To The Left Of Time

    by Thomas Lux ...
    A brilliant new collection of poems by Kingsley Tufts Award–winning poet Thomas LuxWith 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, ... Read more

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  • God Particles

    Poems

    by Thomas Lux ...
    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 profound compassion, cuts through many of the poems in Lux’s book of imaginative verse. While themes of intolerance, inhumanity, loss, and a deep sense of mortality mark these poems about life and ... Read more

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  • Basics in Business Informatics

    by Peter Weber, Roland Gabriel, Thomas Lux, Katharina Menke ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book takes you on a journey into the world of business informatics. It has a modular structure and covers the key aspects of business informatics. Besides the thematic introductions, each chapter includes excursuses, review questions, and practical exercises, for which solutions are provided in a separate chapter. The book concludes with two teaching cases on digital transformation. It is ... Read more

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  • Beautiful in the Mouth

    by Keetje Kuipers ...
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    Thomas Lux selected this debut collection as winner of BOA’s A. Poulin, Jr., Poetry Prize. In his foreword he writes, "I was immediately struck by the boldness of imagination, the strange cadences, and wild music of these poems. We should be glad that young poets like Keetje Kuipers are making their voices heard not by tearing up the old language but by making the old language new."Keetje Kuipers, ... Read more

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  • Split Horizon

    by Thomas Lux ...
    Thomas Lux is the author of such books as Sunday, Half Promised Land, and The Drowned River. His poetry has been fulfilling every expectation by penetrating deeper into the plain-spoken, saturnine, witty language that he virtually invented. In his latest poetry collection, Lux’s level gaze, cool talk, weird rhythms, and quirky humor place him in a special territory - entirely original - of ... Read more

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  • Child Made Of Sand

    Poems

    by Thomas Lux ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Cradle Place

    Poems

    by Thomas Lux ...
    The Cradle Place is a collection from Thomas Lux, a self-described "recovering surrealist" and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award.These fifty-two poems bring to full life the "refreshing iconoclasms" Rita Dove so admired in Lux's earlier work. His voice is plainspoken but moody, humorous and edgy, and ever surprising.These are philosophical poems that ask questions about language and intention, ... Read more

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