The View from January

Tom Allbaugh's poems ask questions. What is thankfulness? What is devotion? They move with grace-smooth as fish in an aquarium light through various scenes- a visit to the dentist, plane travel, writing letters, writing novels, Paul Bonfiglio's South Side Sweets, a son stopped mid-flight.

Diane Glancy, author of The Reason for Crows

In The View from January, Thomas Allbaugh's poems traverse icy Michigan and mild California, the airport and the hospital, meditating on our need for community a...