Description Jeffrey Thomson's second collection of poems, The
Country of Lost Sons, investigates the narrative environment of
childhood, especially the way violence is inscribed on children
through myth, culture, and legend. The poems trace the growth of
the author's young son (his vulnerability and equal potential for
violence) across a landscape of rewritten myth and narrative. From
the Trojan War (bracketed as it is by the deaths of two children,
Iphegenia and Astyanax) through the Biblical accounts of Job,
Jeremiah, and Jephthah to the modern tragedies of the war in
Kosovo, AIDS, and the contemporary culture of violence, the poems
build to a culmination of fear that is only tempered by love,
grace, and the redemptive power of storytelling itself. About the
Author The Country of Lost Sons is Jeffrey Thomson's third
collection of poetry. His first collection of poetry was The Halo
Brace (Birch Brook Press). Renovation, his third book, is
forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press. He has also
published poetry and nonfiction in Quarterly West, New Delta
Review, Puerto del Sol, Gulf Coast, and Willow Springs, as well as
critical essays on Sandra Cisneros, James Wright, Derek Walcott and
the environmental elegy. He has been a Fellow at the Writers @ Work
Conference and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers
Conference. His works have won numerous awards, including the
Master's Poetry Contest and the Academy of American Poets' Prize on
three occasions. He received his PhD from the University of
Missouri in Creative Writing in 1996 and is currently an Assistant
Professor of English at Chatham College in Pittsburgh where he
directs the MFA in Writing program.
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