Review
"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 2002As fresh a re-imagining...of what language can be to the cityscape as Hart Crane's was to the Brooklyn Bridge. --
D. A. PowellIn Live Feed, Tom Thompson leads the pastoral deeply into a wild darkness of the here and now. --
Donald RevellThompson's poems are galvanized by the surge of electrical language...Visual (and verbal) gems. --
David Roderick, slopeTom 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.