To the Left of Time
By Thomas Lux

Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts (1946). He’s known for his surreal, funny poems with titles like “Commercial Leech Farming Today,” “Traveling Exhibition of Torture Instruments,” “The Oxymoron Sisters,” and “Walt Whitman’s Brain Dropped on Laboratory Floor.”

His many awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Robert Creeley Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and three NEA fellowships. Poet Billy Collins describes Lux as “one of the few poets writing today who fills me with envy.” Lux currently lives in Atlanta.

He describes contemporary American poetry as “Burgeoning, chaotic, many, many good poets, a growing cultural profile, a healthy, squawking, boisterous, fractious, inclusive, tradition and (true) innovation marrying or colliding.”

Read our interview with Thomas Lux.

Poems from this book:

• My Father Whistled

The Road Home: News from Lake Wobegon
By Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor has been delighting audiences for four decades now with heartfelt, moving, and downright hilarious tales from the shores of Lake Wobegon. Never before collected, these expertly crafted stories are full of gentle humor, genuine emotion, and (more often than not) surprising insights into family, relationships, community, faith, and hope. More than three hours on three CDs.