Thomas Lux: 17 books

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...

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...

A brilliant new collection of poems by Kingsley Tufts Award–winning poet Thomas Lux With 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...

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. While themes of intolerance,...

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...

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 work, Lux's level gaze, cool talk, weird rhythms,...

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,...

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...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Medizin - Zahnmedizin, Note: keine, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In einer Literaturrecherche wurden die Ergebnisse bei der Versorgung des Unterkiefers mit steg-, kugelkopf- und konuskronenretinierten Suprastrukturen auf Implantaten ausgewertet....

Archive sind das wichtigste Quellenreservoir für Geschichts- und Gesellschaftswissenschaften, sie sind das Gedächtnis der Verwaltung und Geschäftsführung. Die ›Einführung in die Archivkunde‹ gibt einen Abriss der Archivgeschichte von den antiken Anfängen bis zu den unterschiedlichen Archiven...

Projektarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Medizin - Zahnmedizin, Note: keine, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In einer Literaturrecherche wurden die Ergebnisse bei der Versorgung des Unterkiefers mit steg-, kugelkopf- und konuskronenretinierten Suprastrukturen auf Implantaten ausgewertet. Es wurden...

Zwar ist erst zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts explizit von Fans die Rede. Doch schon lange davor lassen sich Beispiele finden, die aus heutiger Sicht ebenfalls als Fantum bezeichnet werden können. Thomas Schmidt-Lux beschreibt diese Entwicklung von Fans und Fanobjekten seit der Antike. Abschließend...

To address the exponential growth in the fields of pediatric hematology and oncology, this classic reference has been separated into two distinct volumes. With this volume, devoted strictly to pediatric hematology, and another to pediatric oncology, you’ll keep you on the cutting-edge of these two...

To address the growing complexities of childhood cancer, Nathan and Oski’s Hematology and Oncology of Infancy and Childhood has now been separated into two distinct volumes. With this volume devoted strictly to pediatric oncology, and another to pediatric hematology, you will be on the cutting edge...