Download or read book New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995 written by Thomas Lux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Public Library's 25 "Books to Remember" in 1997 Lux comments on the absurd, the pathetic, and the commonplace in our culture, writing with compassion as well as satire. He is "singular among his peers in his ability to convey with a deceptive lightness the paradoxes of human emotion," says Publishers Weekly, and Robert Hass, in the Washington Post Book World, takes special note of Lux's "bitter wit, the kind of irony that comes with a quick, impatient intelligence."