Selected from the last five books and featuring a dynamic collection of new work--poems that play with form and content and present a diverse set of voices (from jazz to jokes, from telegrams to fake news. Ranging widely across the world, this book asks what we can know, and how, and where. 

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Praise for Half/Life

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"Balancing feeling and thinking, elegy and emergency, these terrific new and selected poems highlight Jeffrey Thomson's immense talent. He cooks every possible style, subject and sound into his work: Orpheus, Dairy Queen, abecedarian couplets, Belfast Notebooks, fake news, pastoral meditations. I have admired Thomson’s remarkable poetry for more than two decades. He writes like the middle brother between Rainer Maria Rilke and Larry Levis. He writes like a disciple of Borges, Bishop and Baldwin. He writes like no one else." 

—Terrance Hayes