Thomas Lux

Selected Poems (eBook, ePUB)

Thomas Lux

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Produktbeschreibung

After starting out as a neo-surrealist American poet in the 1970s, Thomas Lux 'drifted away from surrealism and the arbitrariness of all that. I got more interested in subjects, identifiable subjects other than my own angst or ennui.' The later Lux writes more directly in response to more familiar but no less strange human experience, creating a body of work that is at once simple and complex, wildly imaginative and totally relevant. He uses humour or satire 'to help combat the darkness... to make the reader laugh - and then steal that laugh, right out of the throat. Because I think life is like that, tragedy right alongside humour.'

Each of Lux's multi-faceted poems is self-contained, whether it is musing or ranting, lamenting or lambasting, first person personal or first person universal. 'Usually, the speaker of my poems is a little agitated,' says Lux, 'a little smart-ass, a little angry, satirical, despairing. Or, sometimes he's goofy, somewhat elegiac, full of praise and gratitude.'

'...Lux's characteristic strengths: a mixture of poignancy, humour, the sort of detail that makes his best work tonally complex and emotionally strong, as well as inviting in its skilful use of sound, imagery, line, stanza - mostly some form of conversational free verse - and a diction that is, in Marianne Moore's words, "plain American which cats and dogs can read".' - Beverley Bie Brahic,Guardian

'Bloodaxe, which today has probably the country's most exciting international list, also publishes the American Thomas Lux'sSelected Poems. Lux, relatively neglected in the UK hitherto, is a wonderful, ardent and emotionally intelligent poet. Somewhere - but a long way, after Raymond Carver - his poems are urgent with human difficulty, and with understanding.' - Fiona Sampson,Independent(Poetry Books of the Year)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780372105
• Artikelnr.: 42332275

Autorenporträt

Lars Gustafsson is one of ScandinaviaâEUR(TM)s best-known authors. Born in VÿsterÃ¥s, Sweden, in 1936, he published his first novel Vÿgvila: ett mysteriespel pÃ¥ prosa (Rest on the Way: A Mystery Play in Prose), at the age of 21. He is one of the most prolific Swedish writers since August Strindberg. Since the late 1950s he has produced a voluminous flow of poetry, novels, short stories, critical essays, and articles, gaining international recognition with literary awards such as the Prix International Charles Veillon des Essais in 1983, the Heinrich Steffens Preis in 1986, Una Vita per la Litteratura in 1989, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for poetry in 1994, as well as a Nobel nomination. His best-known novel âEUR" championed by John Updike âEUR" is The Death of a Beekeeper (1968). Previous English translations of his poetry published in the US include The Stillness of the World Before Bach (1988), Elegies and Other Poems (2000) from New Directions, and A Time in Xanadu (2008) from Copper Canyon. His Bloodaxe Selected Poems (2015) is his first UK poetry publication and is a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. From 1983 he served as a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught Philosophy and Creative Writing, until retiring in 2006, and has held several visiting lectureships and residencies in Germany. He now divides his time between Stockholm and northern Vÿstmanland, Sweden.