Bøger af Rudy Thomas

The poems in Poems Are Dangerous Necessities tell two stories in one. As a novel, it depicts two main characters, an artist, Modigliani, who writes poetry about his first love, Anna Akhmatova, and creates art inspired by their love affair that began when her husband Nikolai Gumilev took her to Paris on their honeymoon. The second character is a poet who wants to be an artist. He begins to paint after he discovers Modigliani's nudes, his women who would seem unshapely were they clothed.

Poems for a Jamacian woman, love and relationships

Journeys is a novel about a young man who goes to Nashville before the Civil War to buy a horse for his father. It is also a story about the horse and a young slave woman. The young man, Cry, gets recruited by General George Thomas. As a member of General Thomas' intelligence network, Cry gives the reader an accurate, historical account of one of the most successful Generals of that conflict.

Women have always inspired poets to write. The poems in this book are a tribute to the woman behind the words.

The Ground of Memory and War Stories & Other Poems, out of print for many years, have been reprinted as two books in one. The early poems in this reprint are poignant, dealing with family, the death of family members, and the effects of war on individuals and communities.

Poetry by Kentucky poet, Rudy Thomas. Love has a beginning. e e cummings wrote that love no sooner begins than it must end. The poetry in this volume is romantic in the best sense of the term.

Poetry from Appalachia, rural Kentucky, and the region, sprinkled with the mix of national and international seasonings.