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Thomas Lux's poems embody the sound of deep emotions lightly carried. In their deft, sometimes humorous fashion they unseat the spirit, fastening on the rueful and mysterious poignancies of our lives, like that unopened bottle of maraschino cherries abandoned in the refrigerator, or cocking a snook at the dreadful challenges of commercial leech farming today. For the past twenty-five years, Lux's work has grown from his early experiments in surrealism into a body of work that, while challenging the mind and affecting the funnybone, is designed to touch the heart, a destination Lux attains with the utmost precision and delicacy. This book for the first time brings together in one volume the best of his mature work.

"...Lux judiciously gives us what such a volume should be: the natural selection of an oeuvre, whereby many poems are silenced so that stronger, more representative counterparts may speak all the more clearly. And these do speak, with an indelible voice, one at times irreverently quirky and at others poignant and profound, and often--amazingly--all of the above at once."

Brett Foster, Boston Book Review, November 1997

"[A] poet of--usually--bitter wit, of the kind of irony that comes with a quick, impatient intelligence. He can also be darkly funny. I've been reading his 'New and Selected Poems'..., a book full of sanity and dismay."

Robert Hass, Washington Post Book World, 11/02/1997

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