New and Selected Poems of Thomas Lux : 1975-1995

One of the New York Public Library's 25 "e;Books to Remember"e; in 1997 Lux comments on the absurd, the pathetic, and the commonplace in our culture, writing with compassion as well as satire. He is "e;singular among his peers in his ability to convey with a deceptive lightness the paradoxes of human emotion,"e; says Publishers Weekly, and Robert Hass, in the Washington Post Book World, takes special note of Lux's "e;bitter wit, the kind of irony that comes with a quick, impatient intelligence."e;