LIBROS DEL AUTOR: toni thomas

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  • You can Cast Around Forever in my Father’s Shoes
    Toni Thomas
    In the storyyou kiss the spotty skyand birds fly the field unbucklesa blue horizoncrystal rosary.In the storyyou are leavened breadintricate hieroglyphswhen the wolf comesyou are readytoss fear into the brambles.Every sunset flirtsbeyond the namedsupplants faminewith flame. ...
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    12,97 €

  • In the Hermitage of the Soul
    Toni Thomas
    In the auction house of frayed space do some of us stay tethered to a coronation of birds? What would it look like to hold your faith, the earth as a bride?These poems are set in Mexico where the dust mingles with peaches and not every dark road blinds. ...
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    12,98 €

  • A Portuguese Lullaby is What I am After
    Toni Thomas
    There is a lullaby, a Portuguese lullaby, that wafts through the cobbled streets, wedges itself in the punctuation of voices, the lines of faces. It comes without demand, pretense, the need for receipt as if a cathedral is calling the dark into a coronation of lit candles. This lullaby is fastened to loss, longing, abelia, rockroses,  the hillsides of sheep grazing. Fastened to...
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    12,53 €

  • Paradise on a Shoestring
    Toni Thomas
    What if paradise is not just an unfamiliar place bordered by wealth, is a place where even the most timorous, ungainly can find a perch. Who would refuse such gift giving that comes in the midst of want. Tell me - if the girl strips down to nothing will the day come to rest fuller, more generous at her table? ...
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    13,04 €

  • The Arbiter of Her Own Flame
    Toni Thomas
    It was back and back, a long time ago. There was a mother born of verve and flame in a world of camouflage. A daughter trying to understand, speak for her. The hospital an hourglass of derision beside the world’s swept rooms. What could she do but rummage the corridors of her imagination in the name of faith? This collection of poems explores the nature of sanity, passion, long...
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    12,84 €

  • A Bride of Amazement
    Toni Thomas
    Who impels the birds to return, the fir trees to give off their scent in the name of spring?Who communes with the dead, sups at the poor man’s table in the hope things come right? What impels the father to cradle his sermon in the name of love, the woman to meet the world’s pain with a coronation of roses? Who calls the girl out of hiding, asks her to drink from a deeper well?T...
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    12,93 €

  • In Her Soul the Pale Rooms of the Moon Were Wandering
    Toni Thomas
    What is it like to enter loss with your slip burning, every signpost ripped from its hinge? Could you hold a chalice that is more than acrimony, the boxed house, glass word shattered on a bow string? What will you do when the moon comes back, the day asks for more than crumbs at your table? ...
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    12,89 €

  • The Secret Language of River
    Toni Thomas
    Sometimes loss is a heavy boat we travel in, a girl minding snow by the river. Not all things last forever. What would it be like to listen to winter and not flinch, let an ancient language wash over our soul? ...
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    12,75 €

  • Inside Her a River of Snow was Traveling
    Toni Thomas
    Inside her was a lonely father, son, daughter, husband cardplaying with winter, inside her was decency, the scalloped hem of an uncramped song, and snow, snow, rivers of it traveling, traveling toward her beyond lament. ...
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    12,95 €

  • In the Polar Universe
    Toni Thomas
    In the polar universewhere owls and rabbits and mice hold courtbigaboos paint the walls for sportwhere clocks freeze up and ponies flymy hamster will your shoes untiewhere dogs and wee people like to playfox outrace the claws of dayI will in my spaceship grandtravel you to stars and sandoffer up tea and buttery cakepolar bears, a snow etched laketake you to where strange famili...
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    15,31 €

  • In the Mish Mush Universe
    Toni Thomas
    In the mish mush universewhere fizzywicks like to play while queens and bunnies bale the haywhere tadpoles turn the small to big cats and mice hoard tea and fig where strangeness is a lizard fairand to be a princess takes thought and care where goats eat snow and gumpadores liveand what we gain is what we givewhere a child like you and me can supon spongy cake and buttercupfeat...
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    17,54 €

  • A Different Measure of Moonlight
    Toni Thomas
    Do some girls find another measure of moonlight, live amid the rain, half-sung roses in the hope someday they can carry them?Why do some of us permanently vanish, others disappear only to come back a rarer kind of filigree?This collection of poetic narratives looks into the lives of many women, what propels them, sustains them, what sometimes goes missing.Perhaps there are tres...
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    13,83 €

  • The Smooth White Vanishing
    Toni Thomas
    Are some lives diminutive, do they come to us as a hidden pearl, unnoticed vestibule. Will the woman heavy with longing find a way to meet banishment with a different gaze? This collection of poems explores lives that sometimes move invisible, vanish, or become keepers of their own flame. ...
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    13,34 €

  • Perishing in the Rain
    Toni Thomas
    This collection of poems explores the nature of perishing; how lovers, places, family can disappear before we are even able to claim them. The poems circle longing, faith, the preciousness of connection, what we leave behind, the mysterious forces that gather in us, tempt us to flame. ...
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    12,95 €

  • Here
    Toni Thomas
    What is it that threads through our life amongst the trees’ nesting, threads through our family, marriage, hopes, pain? What does it take to be here? How can our children teach us about the future, what it means to trust, forgive, continue even amidst the brokenness?How do we learn how to listen to the earth’s language of love and not turn away?There are some of the themes that...
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    12,53 €

  • Bandits Come and Remove Her Body in the Night
    Toni Thomas
    In these poems, the night can’t always be trusted. Things get carried away, a woman’s voice, body. But some of us refuse to parenthesis want forever behind a barbed wire fence, decide to mother the day in a spill of orchids, build a fortress in our children’s imagination till even walking on a frozen bridge in a flimsy coat with your soul bleeding can feel like a work of art. T...
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    13,05 €

  • Night’s Black Agents
    Thomas Peckett Prest / Toni Schwabe
    The vampire is the most glamorous and iconic of Gothic figures. In Night’s Black Agents, editor Daniel Corrick assembles a baker’s dozen of tales that trace the sanguinary path of this thirsty, mythical creature from the early nineteenth century, where it acted as an incarnation of fears of libertinism and diabolism, appearing as the Satanic villain in penny dreadfuls, through ...
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    23,16 €

  • The Snow Follows Me
    Toni Thomas
    This collection of poems is a celebration of Christmas time, winter joys, family, friends, animals, nature, and play. It speaks for perennial values of kindness, inclusion, compassion and appreciation of the beauty of our natural world. ...
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    13,57 €

  • They Became Wing Perfect and Flew
    Toni Thomas
    Sometimes love turns a blind eye, the seasons of a life go missing. What does loss take from us, threaten to give back? Not every crucifix is a bloodbath. The webbed fantasies of the night hold high heels, boot spurs, can memorize money then spit. Are there people who sailed away? What will happen when a woman refinds the skin that has been peeled from her, slides back into you...
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    13,14 €

  • Unburdened Kisses
    Toni Thomas
    Maybe some of us are unnoticed galaxies tucked inside a heavy coat. The girl with thirst on her tongue wants to taste hot dates, pantomimes, liquid kisses. In the dowry of her heart a pole star burns bright as a secret corridor, cups flame, turns her mouth into meadow. Is it possible in some eyes even paradise on a shoestring remains the bright corsage of a burning bush?The poe...
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    10,60 €

  • In the Boarding House for Unclaimed Girls
    TBD / Toni Thomas
    What would you do if out of your house ached an epiphany, loss wore a tangled dress. In the shoplifter’s paradise there are racks of mink, cashmere, homeless girls who must apostrophe want, siren a love that is never easy. 3 ...
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    10,60 €

  • The Things We Don’t Know
    Toni Thomas
    What if the assumptions we hold are mere hostages of the wind? Can we trust the first word, then the second; a language that builds on agility at the expense of psalm? This collection explores childhood, desire, loss, the feminine, immensity in a measured world, the things we think we know, and those we’ve forgotten. ...
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    10,60 €

  • In the Kingdom of Longing
    Toni Thomas
    Through lyrical verse and visual art the author takes us on a journey of personal discovery. She seeks to explore the gifts of the natural world, the sustenance of the feminine, our search for meaning amid the divine and the mundane.What does it mean to suffer, to despair, to hope, to overcome, to find, to give oneself? What makes for truth and beauty in a world that struggles...
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    9,92 €

  • In the Pink Arms of the City
    Toni Thomas
    Set in Scotland, this collection of poems is a meditation on the nature of modern life, home, relationship, equity, longing. Through a variety of people, landscapes and experiences these poems explore what it means to be human and what sustains.  ...
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    9,71 €

  • Love Adrift in the City of Stars
    Toni Thomas
    This collection of poems by award winning author Toni Thomas explores the nature of love, challenges of relationship, family, the hopes we carry, things that threaten to fall apart.The poems grapple with expectation, loss, the ability to sustain beauty in an often turbulent world. At the core of the collection is a search for meaning and wholeness.  ...
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    9,28 €

  • Emily’s Reindeer Christmas
    Toni Thomas
    This story set in verse and prose follows a young imaginative girl and her dog Trixie as they ready their cabin in the woods for the wonder of Christmas and the arrival of the reindeer. Emily busies herself with special projects, Christmas baking, colorful paper cutouts, her book of Polish fairy tales, and crafting little people. All is in preparation for the coming of Christma...
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    9,89 €

  • You'll be Fast as Lightning Coveting my Painted Tail
    Toni Thomas
    In this sixth collection, Toni Thomas's poems inhabit a world where love is a subversion of slinky dresses, strangers live in our shoes, sea merchants wander, jewels grow on the leafless tree, where permeable girls disappear summer evenings, dangle their legs when the tongue of the river can't get enough of them, where longing and the sacred turn out to be more or less ...
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    8,87 €

  • Blue Halo
    Toni Thomas
    This fifth collection of poems continues to explore the themes first introduced in ACE RAIDER OF THE UNFATHOMABLE UNIVERSE, which center on the life of a beloved brother Chris as seen through the eyes of his sister.  We sense this shy man’s independent spirit, struggles to conform to society’s dictates, and follow him through back breaking jobs, an impossible work ethic, the do...
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    8,81 €

  • Ace Raider of the Unfathomable Universe
    Toni Thomas
    This fourth collection of poems explores the life of a beloved brother Chris through the eyes of his sister. We are introduced to his childhood of potential and tension, his passionate mother and disciplinarian father. We learn of the relationship between brother and sister as his years unfold, his hard working life, his understanding of and care for the marginalized, restless ...
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    8,84 €