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This finalist in the Able Muse Book Award is a collection abounding in insight, hope, grace, surprises, and yes, love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eMOTHERLAND\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA core of spiritual knowledge resides in the poems of Sally Thomas's \u003cem\u003eMotherland\u003c\/em\u003e-- knowledge that might seem strange to the poet herself, in fact, though it definitely resides in her, and radiates throughout this collection. \u003cem\u003eMotherland\u003c\/em\u003e is the perfect title, since the poet, herself a mother, regards all her human occupations as native and yet mysterious, occurring in a place which is both foreign and familiar. The final sequence, on Richeldis of Walsingham, includes lines that describe the expression of that knowledge, as the eloquence\/ Of the small river moving always forward to the unseen\/ Sea. \u003cem\u003eMotherland\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of the presence--radiant, benevolent, challenging--for which there is often no word, except as we find in poetry, like the poetry of Sally Thomas.\u003cbr\u003e --Mark Jarman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Heronry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe poems of Sally Thomas are poems in which the act of \u003cem\u003elooking\u003c\/em\u003e at the world in all its depth and complexity is just about as close as possible to being fully realized in the corresponding world of poetic language and form. And the verses are compelling because in every line something is \u003cem\u003eat stake\u003c\/em\u003e: our very understanding of creation, the human condition, and the mystery of thought and its language that link us, however imperfectly, to what may be called the \u003cem\u003egiven\u003c\/em\u003e world. As Thomas says in Frost, Tricky winter light and my own eye\/ Bend the world, if not to beauty, then\/ To strangeness.\u003cbr\u003e --David Middleton (from the foreword), author of \u003cem\u003eThe Fiddler of Driskill Hill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn her most recent collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eMotherland\u003c\/em\u003e, Sally Thomas gives us a world we live in but, alas, too often don't seem to see. So much is lost, these poems tell us, even as they manage to reinstate and re-imagine these losses for us. All poetry is elegiac, even as it can, in the hands of a serious poet, celebrate the very world which for all of us keeps slipping away in the great wheel of time. Then too there is her mastery of poetic form--among these the sonnet, the villanelle, the couplet, and her unparalleled command of rhyme and slant rhyme. What a delight to discover a poet who has found a way to allow the sacred and the sacramental inform her poems in a surprising range of contemporary idioms.\u003cbr\u003e --Paul Mariani, author of \u003cem\u003eEpitaphs for the Journey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSally Thomas was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1964, and was educated at Vanderbilt University, the University of Memphis, and the University of Utah. She spent some years living in the American West and in Great Britain before settling in North Carolina, her current home. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, \u003cem\u003eFallen Water \u003c\/em\u003e(2015) and \u003cem\u003eRicheldis of Walsingham \u003c\/em\u003e(2016), both from Finishing Line Press. 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