Poetry. Winner of the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. "TOM THOMSON IN PURGATORY falls gracefully into the American tradition of the extended persona poem...Troy Jollimore knows how to trot forth a character as distinct as one who might be encountered in sharply rendered fiction...Of course, we know and delight in the knowledge that Tom Thomson is a verbal phantom, the result of the poet's word-spinning, but at the same time we lean forward to believe in him--our hero for the moment, a man of the hour.. ...
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Poetry. Winner of the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. "TOM THOMSON IN PURGATORY falls gracefully into the American tradition of the extended persona poem...Troy Jollimore knows how to trot forth a character as distinct as one who might be encountered in sharply rendered fiction...Of course, we know and delight in the knowledge that Tom Thomson is a verbal phantom, the result of the poet's word-spinning, but at the same time we lean forward to believe in him--our hero for the moment, a man of the hour...Reading this book, you are bound to take both Tom Thomson and his creator to your heart and to savor the miscellany of other poems that make up this superb collection"--Billy Collins.
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Chesterfield. 2006. MARGIE Inc. /IntuiT House Poetry Series. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780971904057. Selected & Introduced by Billy Collins. 97 pages. paperback. Cover art-‘Mazy Avenues' by James Kuiper. keywords: Poetry Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-TOM THOMSON IN PURGATORY is a collection of poetry from the creator of ‘Tom Thomson', a literary character whom former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins claims to be ‘a verbal phantom, the result of the poet's word-spinning, but at the same time we lean forward to believe in him--our hero for the moment, a man of the hour. ' inventory #27147.