The poems in Live Feed examine how we live our lives on-screen. The commerce machine often assumes the persona of "the city," a place where the speaker seeks an accommodation between urbanicity and organicity, attempting to make some sort of whole of our fractured society, sensibilities, and lives.
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"LIVE FEED offers a renewed urban pastoral, fast-paced, energetic, anxious... Thompson's poems.. have broadened the landscape of American poetry." -- AMERICAN POET, Spring 2002
"imagination at its most exciting, rushing ahead of comprehension, bidding the reader... hurry, hurry, I have something to show you." -- Cal Bedient, Boston Review, April/May 2002
As fresh a re-imagining...of what language can be to the cityscape as Hart Crane's was to the Brooklyn Bridge. -- D. A. Powell
In Live Feed, Tom Thompson leads the pastoral deeply into a wild darkness of the here and now. -- Donald Revell
Thompson's poems are galvanized by the surge of electrical language...Visual (and verbal) gems. -- David Roderick, slope
Tom Thompson's poems...move quickly to the heart of matters the mind can indicate but only the spirit seize. -- Jorie Graham
"imagination at its most exciting, rushing ahead of comprehension, bidding the reader... hurry, hurry, I have something to show you." -- Cal Bedient, Boston Review, April/May 2002
As fresh a re-imagining...of what language can be to the cityscape as Hart Crane's was to the Brooklyn Bridge. -- D. A. Powell
In Live Feed, Tom Thompson leads the pastoral deeply into a wild darkness of the here and now. -- Donald Revell
Thompson's poems are galvanized by the surge of electrical language...Visual (and verbal) gems. -- David Roderick, slope
Tom Thompson's poems...move quickly to the heart of matters the mind can indicate but only the spirit seize. -- Jorie Graham
About the Author
Tom Thompson holds degrees from Dartmouth College, the University of Sussex (UK), and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is currently vice president of a book advertising agency in New York.
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