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Thomas Lux is the author of such books as Sunday, Half Promised Land, and The Drowned River. His poetry has been steadily growing and 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, and quirky humor place him in a special territory - entirely original - of contemporary American poetry.
These new poems, like the book itself, have unusual titles ("Loudmouth Soup," "Virgule," "Each Startled Touch Returns the Touch Unstartled") and circle around their subjects in strange ways, most often dealing with the lonely oddity of the individual in a society that inflexibly ignores individuality.
Split Horizon
by Thomas LuxFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2016-04-19
Publisher(s): HarperCollins
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Author Biography
Thomas Lux is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and a core faculty member of the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers.
Table of Contents
| The People of the Other Village | p. 3 |
| A Large Branch Splintered off a Tree in a Storm | p. 4 |
| An Horatian Notion | p. 5 |
| Gorgeous Surfaces | p. 7 |
| Ditto | p. 9 |
| Virgule | p. 10 |
| The Neighborhood of Make-Believe | p. 11 |
| Edgar Allan Poe Meets Sarah Hale (Author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb") | p. 12 |
| Amiel's Leg | p. 13 |
| Susanna Fontanarossa | p. 14 |
| Exit 5, 3 Miles: Lord's Valley, Grundy's Crossing | p. 15 |
| Cows | p. 16 |
| Loudmouth Soup | p. 17 |
| Endive | p. 18 |
| Farmer Brown | p. 19 |
| Fundamental | p. 20 |
| Proscribed | p. 22 |
| Frankly, I Don't Care | p. 23 |
| The Driver Ant | p. 25 |
| Job's Problems | p. 29 |
| The Nazi at the Puppet Show | p. 31 |
| Kalashnikov | p. 32 |
| The Limbic System | p. 33 |
| Wrong Arm | p. 34 |
| Money | p. 35 |
| The Big Picture | p. 36 |
| Grim Town in a Steep Valley | p. 37 |
| Please Don't Touch the Ruins | p. 38 |
| Biographies | p. 40 |
| Kleptoparasite | p. 42 |
| River Blindness (Onchocerciasis) | p. 43 |
| Just Curious | p. 45 |
| History Books | p. 46 |
| Shaving the Graveyard | p. 51 |
| Autobiographical | p. 53 |
| On Matters Ontological and Eschatological | p. 55 |
| Port Famine | p. 57 |
| Pecked to Death by Swans | p. 58 |
| The River That Scolds at All the Other Rivers | p. 59 |
| Emily's Mom | p. 63 |
| "Mr John Keats Five Feet Tall" Sails Away | p. 65 |
| Boats | p. 67 |
| "I Love You Sweatheart" | p. 68 |
| A Streak of Blood That Once Was a Tiny Red Spider | p. 69 |
| Rhadamanthine | p. 70 |
| Each Startled Touch Returns the Touch Unstartled | p. 71 |
| Say Yes | p. 72 |
| Children in School During Heavy Snowfall | p. 73 |
| Thrombosis Trombone | p. 74 |
| A Boat in the Forest | p. 75 |
| Onomatopoeia | p. 76 |
| Irony | p. 77 |
| Glow Worm | p. 78 |
| Eyes Examined While You Wait | p. 79 |
| Snow as the Rain's Father | p. 80 |
| Notes | p. 81 |
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