Passenger - Softcover

Thompson, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1945588233 ISBN 13: 9781945588235

Publisher: Four Way Books, 2018

“In Tom Thompson’s beautiful and moving book” (Geoffrey Nutter), the poems are filled with passengers travelling through worlds both recognizable and strange―a bishop experiments with ways to elude death; a surgeon hesitates mid-operation; a sensible ghost perches on the end of the bed; a cockroach dances in the kitchen “festooned in shadow.” Threaded throughout the collection are poems that investigate the profound interplay between body and consciousness that becomes so essential in deep illness and mortal love.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

TOM THOMPSON is the author of Live Feed and The Pitch. He has degrees from Dartmouth College, University of Sussex (UK), and the University of Iowa. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely. A long-time advertising executive, he currently works at St. Martin’s Press and lives in New York City with his family.

Review:

“Tom Thompson’s Passenger is a complicated, possessed portrait of the storms that inhabit, course through, and animate our minds, in and out of time.” (Catherine Barnett)

““With radical hospitality and good, dark humor, Tom Thompson encourages a care for the world and the imagination in ways that few other poets do.... He's one of my favorite writers, and it's a pleasure to know what he has to say.” (Graham Foust)

“Passenger is a beautiful and moving book by a masterful poet.... The book’s passengers go on journeys that are visionary and sometimes disillusioning: through parenthood, faith, illness, death and love; intervening in and altering the lives of living things, from children to geraniums.” (Geoffrey Nutter)

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.