{"product_id":"all-the-connecting-lights-paperback","title":"All the Connecting Lights - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGary Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll the Connecting Lights\u003c\/em\u003e is a marvel, an homage to the unnoticed and ordinary, a tender and sweeping reckoning of childhood, nature, the mystery of epilepsy, and how our lives and memories intersect. Thomas sees nuances and symmetries that most of us don't. I reveled in the joy of \"staying lost\" and the grace of \"spring rationales.\" I've been waiting for this book. It is a chronicle of wonder by a truly gifted poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Lee Herrick\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eScar\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFlower\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGary Thomas' poems range widely and feel deeply. From his childhood on a Central California peach farm to the tragic Battle of Aleppo to imagined lives and voices of others, Thomas' poems strike chords of generosity and nostalgia and wonder and, one of his favorite words, grace. Reading these poems allows us as the readers to take part in worlds that feel at once familiar and lost to us, where Neruda and a farm woman share an unlikely birthday tea, and where we all, in reading each of these portraits of a moment in time, are able to \"Gladly bear joy's burden.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-Gillian Wegener\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThis Sweet Haphazard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Gary Thomas' generous full-length collection \u003cem\u003eAll the Connecting Lights\u003c\/em\u003e, his poetry traverses and pays homage to both real and imaginary landscapes-from the Great Central Valley to a peach farm outside Empire, California to castle rooms \"built in the exosphere.\" Striking images abound. In \"Oleanders and Whoopee Cushions,\" he writes, \"a robin's burst blue egg \/ a stiff black widow in her viscous web \/ earwigs belly up or ready to boil out at a touch.\" These are poems that artfully document moments of the human experience, \"Here abide the lost, those \/ abandoned to swirl among \/ dust motes, free range sheep, \/and unused memory, \/ whose textures and traces \/ might still be familiar and felt, \/ if only in this moment.\" Thomas' debut collection connects the lights with poetic grace and emotional honesty.\u003cstrong\u003e-Maw Shein Win\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eStorage Unit for the Spirit House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42732230082623,"sku":"9781646629060","price":34.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/490689a48b8ba89f6150587dc403b9f6.webp?v=1765131744","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/all-the-connecting-lights-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}