“The voice you hear when you read to yourself / is the clearest voice: you speak it / speaking to you.” In this 2010 video, Thomas Lux reads a selection of poems for Georgia Institute of Technology's Poetry at Tech. Lux passed away at the age of seventy on February 5, 2017.
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