Live Feed - Softcover

Thompson, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1882295315 ISBN 13: 9781882295319

Publisher: Alice James Books, 2002

Synopsis

The poems in Live Feed examine how we live our lives on-screen. The commerce machine often assumes the persona of "the city," a place where the speaker seeks an accommodation between urbanicity and organicity, attempting to make some sort of whole of our fractured society, sensibilities, and lives.

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.

Review:

"LIVE FEED offers a renewed urban pastoral, fast-paced, energetic, anxious... Thompson's poems.. have broadened the landscape of American poetry." -- AMERICAN POET, Spring 2002

"imagination at its most exciting, rushing ahead of comprehension, bidding the reader... hurry, hurry, I have something to show you." -- Cal Bedient, Boston Review, April/May 2002

As fresh a re-imagining...of what language can be to the cityscape as Hart Crane's was to the Brooklyn Bridge. -- D. A. Powell

In Live Feed, Tom Thompson leads the pastoral deeply into a wild darkness of the here and now. -- Donald Revell

Thompson's poems are galvanized by the surge of electrical language...Visual (and verbal) gems. -- David Roderick, slope

Tom Thompson's poems...move quickly to the heart of matters the mind can indicate but only the spirit seize. -- Jorie Graham

About this edition

• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1882295315
• ISBN 13: 9781882295319
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80