Museum of Objects Burned by the Souls in Purgatory by Thomson, Jeffrey

Titled after a small gallery of the same name found in Rome, the poems are devoted to meditations on religious relics and works of art. They explore the narrative power these objects carry--the way we imbue totemic figures with both meaning and story, and the potential they have to define the world.

Author: Jeffrey Thomson
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 05/10/2022
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.83w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9781948579254

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/21/2022

About the Author
Jeffrey Thomson is a poet, memoirist, translator, and editor, and is the author of multiple books including the memoir fragile, The Belfast Notebooks, The Complete Poems of Catullus, and the edited collection From the Fishouse. Alice James Books published Half/Life: New & Selected Poems in October 2019. He has been an NEA Fellow, the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre at Queen's University Belfast, and the Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellow at Brown University. He is currently professor of creative writing at the University of Maine Farmington.