STATE OF BLESSED GLUTTONY

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"This is an impressive first book full of meaty poems and wry surprises. Even the so called literary poems--'Circe, ' 'To Anna Karenina, ' 'Note'--are substantive and fresh. Thomas's reach is broad and daring, from the shtetls of her forebears to the abuses of today's petrochemical industry. Mourning the murdered Lithuanian Jews of the Holocaust

Susan Thomas has published stories, poems, and translations in many literary journals and anthologies. State of Blessed Gluttony (Red Hen 2004) was the winner of the 2002 Benjamin Saltman Prize for Poetry, in early 2004. Her chapbook, The Hand Waves Goodbye, was published by Main Street Rag in 2002. She is this year's winner of the Iowa Poetry Award from the Iowa Review and the Ann Stanford Prize from University of Southern California. She lives in Marshfield, Vermont, and New York City.