Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
1 appearances
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Edition 3 (1995) Winner
Thomas Lux
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Thomas Lux
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1946-12-10 （Northampton, Massachusetts）
- Died
- 2017-02-05 （Atlanta, Georgia） age 70
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Massachusetts (birth, upbringing) → Boston (Emerson College) → Bronxville, New York (Sarah Lawrence College area) → Atlanta, Georgia (later residence)
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Professor
- Active Years
- 1970-2017
- Affiliations
- Sarah Lawrence College (writing faculty), Warren Wilson MFA Program (core faculty), Georgia Institute of Technology (Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emerson College | — | — | — | — | United States |
Emerson College
Country:
United States
Enrollment/graduation year not specified in sources
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award | Split Horizon | — | Kingsley Tufts Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2012 | Robert Creeley Award | — | — | Robert Creeley Foundation | 受賞 |
| — | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2003 | Honorary Doctor of Letters (Emerson College) | — | — | Emerson College | 授与 |
| — | National Endowment for the Arts (grants) | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts | 助成（複数回） |
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
1995
Work:
Split Horizon
Organization:
Kingsley Tufts Foundation
Result:
受賞
Robert Creeley Award
2012
Organization:
Robert Creeley Foundation
Result:
受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞
Honorary Doctor of Letters (Emerson College)
2003
Organization:
Emerson College
Result:
授与
National Endowment for the Arts (grants)
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts
Result:
助成（複数回）
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Memory's Handgrenade
1972 Poetry collectionEarly collection featuring observations, humor, and fragmentary scenes from everyday life.
Everyday lifeHumorPersonal memory
Split Horizon
1994 Poetry collectionSixth collection containing work that won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; critically acclaimed.
Fragmented perspectivesMemoryTime
God Particles
2008 Poetry collectionOne of his later books mixing scientific metaphor and philosophical fragments; notable for explosive imagery.
Scientific metaphorExistenceLanguage
To the Left of Time
2016 Poetry collectionLate collection dealing with time, personal memory, and the absurdities of daily life.
TimeMemoryAbsurdity
Bibliography
- Memory's Handgrenade (1972)
- The Glassblower's Breath (1976)
- Sunday (1979)
- Half Promised Land (1986)
- The Drowned River (1990)
- Split Horizon (1994)
- The Blind Swimmer: Selected Early Poems, 1970–1975 (1996)
- New and Selected Poems, 1975–1995 (1997)
- The Street of Clocks (2001)
- The Cradle Place (2004)
- God Particles (2008)
- Child Made of Sand (2012)
- Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2014)
- To the Left of Time (2016)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Colloquial and rhythmic, mixing humor and absurdityRapid image shifts and vivid metaphor
- Recurring Motifs
- Fragments of everyday lifeAnimals and rural imageryMemory and timeFamily and labor
Health
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Lung cancer不明 - 2017Died of lung cancer in February 2017
Legacy
Thomas Lux was an American poet known for a distinctive voice blending humor and the absurd. As a longtime teacher he mentored many poets and contributed to local poetry culture through Georgia Tech's Poetry@Tech program.
Archives
- Georgia Tech Poetry@Tech archive (related materials)
Quotes
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The poem is a bridge
Source: Essay "The Poem Is a Bridge: Poetry@Tech" (in Humanistic Perspectives in a Technological World, 2014) (2014)
Trivia
- Raised on a dairy farm in Massachusetts
- Taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1975 to 2001
- Directed Georgia Tech's Poetry@Tech program
- Died of lung cancer in 2017