The Pitch - Softcover

Thompson, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1882295560 ISBN 13: 9781882295562

Publisher: Alice James Books, 2006

Synopsis

The Pitch revels in the city's contradictions : interiors and exteriors, beauty and fear, the Buy and the Sell. With keen attention to sound and iridescent, ephemeral imagery touched with whimsy, these spirited poems convey a sense of urgency and warmth together celebrating the city’s hustle and hucksters, citizens and suspects.

About this title

About the Author:

Tom Thompson holds degrees from Dartmouth College, the University of Sussex (UK), and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is currently vice president of a book advertising agency in New York. His first book, Live Feed, received a Greenwall Grant from the Academy of American Poets.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Rough sketch for a shinier forest”

Our plans, OK,
drawn on the very best material.
If it’s not titanium, I’m not interested. Piston
the leaves up higher. Fashion new buildings
from smoke. Brushed, right? That’s what we make of it.
Our needs are plenipotentiary
and forever in debt to the depletor.
A him? Ahem. Wispy god, indelicate
haze we only need some of in this mirrory city.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1882295560
• ISBN 13: 9781882295562
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80