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Poems portray the author's experiences and explore themes such as childhood, death, and the natural world
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Lux holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry and is director of the McEver Visiting Writers Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been awared three NEA grants and the Kingsley Tufts Award and is a former Guggenheim Fellow.
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After A Few Whiffs Of Another World
At The Far End Of A Long Wharf
Beneath The Apple Branches Bent Dumbly
The Crows Of Boston And New York
The Dark Comes On In Blocks, In Cubes
Dr. Goebbels's Novels
Early On, This Decade's Light Smelled
Empty Pitchforks
The Fourth Grade
Give It To The Wind
The Great Books Of The Dead
His Job Is Honest And Simple
His Spine Curved Just Enough
Hospital View
If I Die Before I Wake
It Must Be The Monk In Me
It's The Little Towns I Like
Like A Wide Anvil From The Moon The Light
The Milkman And His Son
Moon-annoyed, Cognac's Ashen Thrill
Night Above The Town
The Night So Bright A Squirrel Reads
On Resumption Of The Military Draft
The Oxymoron Sisters
Pedestrian
Sailing, Islands
Sleep For Bears
Sleepmask Dithyrambic
Snake Lake
Somebody's Aunt Out Swabbing Her Birdbath
The Swimming Pool
Tarantulas On The Lifebuoy
A Tenth Of A Cent A Stitch
There Were Some Summers
The Thirst Of Turtles
Triptych, Middle Panel Burning
Via Posthumia
When I'm Gone
Wife Hits Moose
You Go To School To Learn
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
At The Far End Of A Long Wharf
Beneath The Apple Branches Bent Dumbly
The Crows Of Boston And New York
The Dark Comes On In Blocks, In Cubes
Dr. Goebbels's Novels
Early On, This Decade's Light Smelled
Empty Pitchforks
The Fourth Grade
Give It To The Wind
The Great Books Of The Dead
His Job Is Honest And Simple
His Spine Curved Just Enough
Hospital View
If I Die Before I Wake
It Must Be The Monk In Me
It's The Little Towns I Like
Like A Wide Anvil From The Moon The Light
The Milkman And His Son
Moon-annoyed, Cognac's Ashen Thrill
Night Above The Town
The Night So Bright A Squirrel Reads
On Resumption Of The Military Draft
The Oxymoron Sisters
Pedestrian
Sailing, Islands
Sleep For Bears
Sleepmask Dithyrambic
Snake Lake
Somebody's Aunt Out Swabbing Her Birdbath
The Swimming Pool
Tarantulas On The Lifebuoy
A Tenth Of A Cent A Stitch
There Were Some Summers
The Thirst Of Turtles
Triptych, Middle Panel Burning
Via Posthumia
When I'm Gone
Wife Hits Moose
You Go To School To Learn
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Company
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0395382556
- ISBN 13 9780395382554
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages72
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