Selected Poems
After starting out as a neo-surrealist American poet in the 1970s, Thomas Lux ''drifted away from surrealism and the arbitrariness of all that. I got more interested in subjects, identifiable subjects other than my own angst or ennui.'' The later Lux writes more directly in response to more familiar but no less strange human experience, creating a body of work that is at once simple and complex, w...
After starting out as a neo-surrealist American poet in the 1970s, Thomas Lux ''drifted away from surrealism and the arbitrariness of all that. I got more interested in subjects, identifiable subjects other than my own angst or ennui.'' The later Lux writes more directly in response to more familiar but no less strange human experience, creating a body of work that is at once simple and complex, w...
