Poetry. This book is a selection of poems from early in the career of Thomas Lux, who has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Lux has been the poet-in-residence at Emerson College and a faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. "He has control, he throws his grenades with deadly accuracy and an almost perfect sense of timing. The poems explode into the reader's brain, permanently embedded"-Cynthia Macdonald. Lux is the author of nineteen poetry books and chapbooks.

Author City: ATLANTA, GA USA

Thomas Lux holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he also directs the McEver Program for Visiting Writers. He is a recipient of three NEA grants, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Award. His most recent works are FROM THE SOUTHLAND (Marick Press, 2012) and GOD PARTICLES (Adastra Press, 2011). Raised in Easthampton, Massachusetts, and educated in the town's public schools, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.