About the Author

Thomas Rabbitt was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard College, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Iowa. Now retired, he is the former director of the creative writing program at the University of Alabama. He lives with his horses in Lewisburg, Tennessee.

Reviews

American Wake is an important book and a body of work that any serious reader of poetry should know.--Andrew Hudgins "author of Ecstatic in the Poison and winner of the Poets' Prize for After the Lost War"

Perhaps it has to be the poet's first article of faith that "Nothing's pointless under the spinning sun." Perhaps this faith is what makes the lines of Thomas Rabbit's American Wake so seethingly a-buzz with life, with pungent insight, and with close focused feeling. This selection of his new and old is valuable in many ways, not least in reminding us how substantial is this fine poet's achievement--Fred Chappell, Poet Laureate of North Carolina "author of Spring Garden: New and Selected Poems"

Tom Rabbitt's American Wake, a book freighted with a lifetime of intense living, is as beautifully crafted and polished as an expensive sloop; and as sharply and deftly etched as its complex path of emotional tacks. As with any major aesthetic achievement, it has in tow what has led it forward, a commitment to art that is nothing less than devotional.--Jack Myers "author of OneonOne and As Long As You're Happy (winner of the National Poetry Series award)"

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