Thomas Lux (1946–2017) was an American poet and academic. The author of fourteen books of poetry, he was known for pairing humor with sharp existentialism.
Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Lux graduated from Emerson College and the University of Iowa. Inspired by the 1970s’ Neo-surrealist movement, he began publishing haunted, ironic poems, starting with Memory’s Handgrenade (1972) and Sunday: Poems (1979.)
Lux served as poet in residence at Emerson College 1970–75, writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College 1975–2001, and the Georgia Institute of Technology 2001–17.
Lux’s other notable works include Half Promised Land (1986,) Split Horizon (1994,) The Street of Clocks (2001,) The Cradle Place (2004,) and To the Left of Time (2016.) Collections of his poems were published in New and Selected Poems: 1975–95 (1997) and Selected Poems (2014.)
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The voice you hear when you read to yourself is the clearest voice: you speak it speaking to you.
—Thomas Lux
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