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Walking Between the Raindrops
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639807048
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Feb 28 2025
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a land famished for grace, Walking Between the Raindrops is a feast of necessary nourishment. Thomas DeFreitas' poetry drips with wit, wisdom, and the kind of tenderness and sensory detail that leaves you feeling like you too have sat with the gnarled and skimp-leaved trees of Cooke's Hollow. Like a downpour that washes everything clean, or like a cup of good, black coffee, DeFreitas' poems are fresh, real, alive, and are certain to wake you up.
-Julia Fehrenbacher, author of Staying in Love
Thomas is a sacra-sensual poet, speaking with tender reverence to the ritual props and set dressing of everyday life. He is a poet's poet in capturing self-illumination, ever-noticing the Cupid's arrow/Annunciation moments of Muse piercing and gracing the writer. He falls in wholesome love via holy triptych-panels (stanzas) of watching the world. This collection evokes Spencer Reece, Baudelaire as a Boston flâneur, Tony Hoagland, Mary Oliver (if she were a city mouse), and has Ginsberg's expansiveness. My sight would shelter in the candle-dotted dark / of an ancient monastery's chapel. All who populate these poems are candle-dots in a beloved, beckoning sacred worldscape. It is an honor to read these poems and feel you are welcome, sitting beside a poetfriend on a cushioned pan-spiritual pew.
-jojo Lazar, Poet-Artist
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