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The poems included in
The Rabbits Could Sing delve farther into territory that Amber Flora Thomas visited in her prize-winning book
Eye of Water, showing even more clearly how "the seam has been pulled so far open on the past" that "the dress will never close." Here, the poem acts not as a body in itself but as a garb drawn around the here and now. Loss, longing, and violation are sustenance to a spirit jarred from its animal flesh and torn apart, unsettling the reader with surprising images that are difficult to forget. The poems in
The Rabbits Could Sing invite the reader into a world thick with the lush bounty of summer in the far north, where the present is never far from the shadow of the past.
About the author
Amber Flora Thomas is the author of Eye of Water: Poems, and her poems have appeared in Orion, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among other publications.
Summary
Features poems that delve farther into the territory that the poet visited in her prizewinning book "Eye of Water", showing even more clearly how "the seam has been pulled so far open on the past" that "the dress will never close." In this title, the poem acts not as a body in itself but as a garb drawn around the here and now.
