Thomas A. Thomas is a poet & photographer who was born in Illinois, but has gratefully made his home in the Pacific Northwest for more than 42 years. His newest poetry collection, My Heart Is Not Asleep from MoonPath Press is a sort of memoir in poems, following the journey of falling on love with, then finding resilience while losing his beloved through the slow course of many years. His poetry, photographs and videos appear online and in print, most recently in Gyroscope Review, Cirque Journal, Blue Heron Review, Vox Populi Sphere, TheBanyanReview.org & FemAsiaMagazine.com, as well as anthologies in English and Serbian and in translation to Spanish, Serbian, and Bengali. Great thanks are made to Cultivating Voices Live Poetry, and to the University of Michigan, where Thomas had an auspicious beginning with Donald Hall and Gregory Orr.

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About My Heart Is Not Asleep:

"In the poems of his new book, Thomas A. Thomas delicately reconstructs moments from a shared life altered by the gradual dissolution caused by Alzheimer's. Through lyrical verses, Thomas navigates the landscape of memory, where physical intimacy melds with present longing, blurring the lines of what was and what is. Nature, a silent witness to their journey, becomes a companion in Thomas's, echoing their story- from the tender touch of picking berries to the profound significance of 'the month apples begin to blush at the thought of falling.' My Heart Is Not Asleep delineates a world where pain and beauty converge, where love endures. This book is a powerful affirmation of humanity and courage."
—Dzvinia Orlowsky

"This is a lush creation of song and scar, of vulnerability and emotional honesty. In Thomas A. Thomas's debut collection, My Heart Is Not Asleep, the natural and human worlds mingle in accessible and poignant ways. Brimming with meditations on the self and other, humanity and the natural world, these vibrant poems remain grounded in a universal familiarity that opens us up to something greater."
—John Sibley Williams