Cathedral of Wish [Paperback]

In Cammy Thomas's poems we are immediately thrust into the ice-crack of family legacy, guided by Thomas's chilling unsurprise in the face of violence or violent austerity. The simplicity of her language suggests that this austerity is fundamental, irrevocable, and yet something in Thomas's fierceness also suggests it can be faced down.

Winner of the 2006 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America

CAMMY THOMAS's poems have appeared in Agenda, Marlboro Review, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Sahara, the on-line journals Perihelion and Blaze, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and a PhD from Berkeley, where she specialized in Victorian poetry. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and teaches at Concord Academy.

Hunting Fall From My Father's Heart I Sprung In My Mother's Bed Bath The Quiert Boy One Loss Harm or Home You Can Only Make One Axe and Adze Again Credit Mom Slid Into Her Glass God's Hand Moving Day The Old Childs House Violin in the Underworld Suicide Seeds Evey Morning a Parting In the Library Reconciliations Midnight Cargden Cracked Sycamore Snake The Children Inheritance Romance is Fatal For This Wrack At Dinner Family Day at the Rehab Hollow Bone-Eater His Gifted Children Dismasted Autumnal The Two Almost Gone Good Bye, She Said One Always Beside Us Not Fade Away Vacation Planting The Mysterious Stranger Burial Snakeskin I Felt Fierce Love Envelop Of Us First Trip Since the Disaster