David E. Thomas

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Thomas excavates the foundations for his writing where the nature writer and working class poet overlap. He fixes hard earned observations upon person or place, event or season, and applies his honed craft, staying until the job is well done. </div> <bR> <div> With his latest collection, <U>Waterworks Hill</U>, we find a truly powerful sampling of one of America's premier writers. His mind picks up sandy WPA bricks, bleak boxcars, or Murphy's Lounge and builds them anew. Whether riding the Ecuadorian Railway or passing through the snowy mist in Hellgate Canyon, his vision is wide, encompassing, and invites us all to come along. Thomas watches where wind and water write on stone. See for yourself. </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> James Jay, author of <I>The Journeymen</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Dave <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#2A2A2A" FACE="Garamond" >Thomas, like his old visual artist friend, the late Jay Rummel, is a Montana original, a gift from the Hi-line to us refugees down in Missoula.  His poems create intimacy with all things without being sentimental.  He's in love with the grime and sweat of work done out doors amidst the beauty of rivers and a small pine growing in the shade, or being stuck at the dump; his sense of social justice is pricked by his travels into Latin America; his respect of and honor for his parents and family are the expression of the true rebel; his grief for lost friends and lovers contains the "silence / of chokecherries/ and talus."  He easily reminds us of an older, truer Montana alive in these sure-footed, hard-earned poems.  It's Saturday, and he's not on anybody's clock.  He'll take you there."</FONT></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Roger Dunsmore, Author of <I>You're Just Dirt</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Dave Thomas invites you to lace up your boots, clean your glasses, and walk with him.  Don't miss this opportunity.  You'll work, drink, travel, and mourn-observe and celebrate the “moments” in life.  He is the blue-collared Zen master of the clear-eyed spare-form.  Dave's simple poems are simply as good as poetry gets.  They chronicle the daily joys and mysteries of this brief trip we're all on.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>                     Mark Gibbons, author of <I>blue horizon</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the Preface:</div> <bR> <div> <I>Waterworks Hill</I> is the chronicle of a man who is simply walking around with a camera obscura in his gut, <I>the anxious trampling / of buffalo in his heart / of time  murmurs  secrets / in unknown ears,</I> having learned the <I>lessons</I> taught <I>from the moon</I>.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Craig Czury, Editor, Montana Poets Series</div> <div> Reading, Pa.</div> <div> 10/10/10</div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>ANOTHER WEEK AT HOPE</B></div> <bR> <div> Slowly, slowly they all come</div> <div>           back</div> <div> the weekend red</div> <div>           in their eyes</div> <div> the gandies return</div> <div> from girlfriends</div> <div> families and solitary drunks</div> <div>           to bleak</div> <div>           boxcars and Murphy's</div> <div> Lounge</div> <div> the classic calendar shot</div> <div>           of Marilyn Monroe</div> <div>                above jukebox</div> <div> cranking out country</div> <div>                sadness</div> <div>                still only</div> <div> a nickel a tune</div> <div> stock wisecracks posted</div> <div>                on the walls</div> <div> Murph hardly ever talks</div> <div> takes your quarter</div> <div>           for a glass of beer</div> <div> shuffles to the next room</div> <div> a fishin' license</div> <div> or an ice cream cone</div> <div>                then back</div> <div> for a game of pool</div> <div> slowly, slowly they come on in</div> <div>                the scent of high pine</div> <div> and fir drifts over the evening</div> <div>                lake</div> <div> a wild tingle</div> <div> in the cheap beer</div> <div> before Monday morning</div> <div> and five more days'</div> <div> railroad sweat and grime.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>WRITING ON STONE</B></div> <bR> <div> The writing here</div> <div>      done</div> <div>      mostly</div> <div>      by wind</div> <div> and water</div> <div> a message of time</div> <div> etched</div> <div> into sandstone</div> <div>      images</div> <div> to challenge</div> <div> a wandering mind</div> <div>      the Blackfeet</div> <div> found these places</div> <div>      sacred</div> <div> these stories</div> <div> of rock </div> <div> and glacial</div> <div>      carving</div> <div> draw heartbeats</div> <div> into their shadows</div> <div>           late spring</div> <div> the Milk muddy</div> <div>           and still</div> <div>                high</div> <div> but higher</div> <div> not long ago</div> <div>      wildflowers</div> <div> in bloom</div> <div> and leaves every</div> <div>           shade</div> <div> of green</div> <div> this breeze</div> <div> full of spirit</div> <div>      and mid-day</div> <div>           sun.</div> <div>          </div> <div> <I>(for Frank and Max)</I></div> <bR> <div> David E. Thomas grew up on the Hi-Line in North-central Montana. He graduated from the University of Montana then found himself on the streets of San Francisco where he began his literary education. Economic realities drove him to work on railroad gangs, big construction projects like Libby Dam and other labor intensive jobs. He has traveled in the United States, Mexico and Central America. He has published three books of poems, <I>Fossil Fuel, Buck's Last Wreck </I>and <I>The Hellgate Wind</I> and has poems in the anthologies <I>The Last Best Place</I> and <I>Poems Across The Big Sky </I>and most recently <I>New Poets of the American West. </I>He currently lives in Missoula, Montana.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Waterworks Hill </B>is a 72 page hand-stitched paper book with spine - $16.00</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE                               </div> <div>       </div> <bR> <div> From the US         <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Waterworks Hill "> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--26"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Canada    <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Waterworks Hill "> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--26"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Waterworks Hill "> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--26"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>