Door to Door

Door to Door leaves me speechless. I find myself looping back again and again as I read, wanting both to grasp and savor Thomas's lush lines. His maniforld details limn the spiritual in the erotic and, perhaps more crucial, the erotic in the spiritual. * —North American Review *
His poems are pitched instead at an informal level that is at once colloquial and nuanced, and capable of handling classical subjects as well as popular culture. * —Shenandoah *
...was chosen by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize. * —New England Review *
“This is a fresh, inventive, and moving book. The speaker here enters into a world, exploring, with an engaging openness and fullness of detail, a range of perspectives different from his own. At the same time, he acknowledges wishes the world can never fulfill, wishes he presents with a witty and exuberant loyalty. The dialogue that results is richly engaging.”---—Carl Dennis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry