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WHERE WE ARRIVE

WHERE WE ARRIVE

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ISBN: 978-1-7333400-8-3

Pub Date: Apr. 2021

Pages: 92


By Thomas Mitchell


Thomas Mitchell is a poet whose listening matters more than most people’s hearing, whose looking reveals more than what most of us can see. To read him is to cock an ear toward water, or wind, and to grasp something otherwise inexpressible. In these poems, “the small sound of rain in retreat” may be magically transformed to trees’ low limbs “like women braiding their hair.” In this way, Mitchell takes you places you have no idea you’re ready, and glad, to go.

—Robert Wrigley, author of Box and Anatomy of Melancholy


    Mitchell shows us in these hard earned poems that, in the face of aging, despair, and loss, and in a time when our whole existence has been turned upside down by a microscopic organism, we can still find moments of grace and harmony. His poems bear witness to that struggle—our struggle too—and transport us to those “spots of time” in which (as Wordsworth tells us in The Preludes, ”our minds / Are nourished and invisibly repaired. . . .”

    —Don Schofield, author of In Lands Imagination Favors


    Thomas Mitchell is a shrewd and trusted observer of the natural world. In this third book, Where We Arrive, Mitchell listens to “the counsel of water” and moves “from one silence to another.” And as such, he spies “a red-tailed hawk drifting in absolute loneliness.” More often than not, Mitchell is a poet of intimate feelings. He remarks time and again upon various stars and moons, towhees and starlings. His poetry is a poetry bent on reimagining the world.

    —Thomas Aslin, author of Salvage and A Moon Over Wings


    Thomas Mitchell is the author of two previous books of poetry, The Way Summer Ends and Caribou. He studied at CSU Sacramento with Dennis Schmitz, where he received his Masters. He earned an MFA from the University of Montana, where he worked with Richard Hugo and Madeline De Frees. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The New England Review, New Letters, Mirimar, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Most recently he has been selected as the Featured American Poet in The High Window (United Kingdom).

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