Robert Thomas's most recent book, Sonnets with Two Torches and a Cliff, was published by Carnegie Mellon, as was his earlier book Dragging the Lake. His book Bridge was a novella published by BOA Editions and received the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction. His first book, Door to Door, was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the Poets Out Loud Prize and published by Fordham University. He has received an NEA poetry fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Southern Review, Subtropics, The Yale Review, and many other journals, and his sonnet sequence "Negligee and Hatchet" won first prize in Nimrod's Pablo Neruda Poetry Contest.

Other poems by Robert Thomas in Verse Daily:
November 28, 2018:   "Sonnet with Mozart and Bear" "Whoever you're with, I'm sure he's the real..."
August 19, 2006:   "Song of the Soft-Shoe Sirens" by " Yes, go to your muses..."
October 15, 2003:  "Eurydice's Song" "I'll never forget that afternoon. Where were you then..."

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Other poems on the web by Robert Thomas:
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"Vanishing Point"
Five poems
Three poems
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Robert Thomas's web site.

Robert Thomas on Twitter.

About Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff:

"Irrepressible, seemingly inexhaustible in invention, this exhilarating poetic tour-de-force demonstrates that if you couple things that don't go together at all, the sparks of their friction can set the mind on fire. Every sonnet night-dives off a different cliff, torches in hand—one more brilliant, observant, sardonic, intimate, provocative, hilariously meek, than the next; each a metaphoric misalliance creating fresh discoveries, including the infinite ways in which 'no one is ever loved as they deserve.'"
—Eleanor Wilner

"A formally constrained poem that brilliantly manages to sound anything but. A paean to longing, to the mysteries of love and time and distance, 'Negligee and Hatchet,' as its title suggests, is full of contraries and surprises—swamp pop and Mick Jagger, grotto and tomb, Aphrodite and caramel corn . . . the poet's language turns and dazzles with every line."
—Kim Addonizio