Tenderfoot

Thomas’ flinty new collection of poems, Tenderfoot, spanning forty years, hammers home the idea of expanding the view of landscape to include the self. Witness “Climbing Through A Deeper Silence” or the pilot’s vertigo in “Detail from a Combat Flight,” or the view from under the sea in “Fear of Singing.” Some, in fixed forms and written at the start of the poet’s journey, get to breathe again after years of incubation. Journey, pushing on into the interior, alone or with witness, seeking pa...