Some Things in This World

<p><span style=color: rgba(87 87 87 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In Joyce Thomas's third book the beauty wonder and marvel of the natural world are memorably evoked in meticulously crafted poems. At times elegiac at times playful poems take inspiration from-and hold witness to-the natural world as it is as well as the abuses to which humans have subjected it. Calling on the past and foreseeing into a future both grappling with extinctions </span><strong style=color: rgba(87 87 87 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Some Things in This World</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(87 87 87 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> uses the power and transcendent possibilities of the sympathetic imaginative and the transformative magic of language to hold a mirror to our world.</span></p>