Brief Light is a collection of short poems meditating on human experience, largely but not exclusively through traditional poetic forms. Their bent is simultaneously lyric and narrative, as if novels had been compressed into fourteen lines and peopled by quiet, inward-looking characters. A reader writes, "Sally Thomas is one of the best American poets writing. Her direct language, skillful use of irony, mastery of form, and quietly compassionate voice combine to give her work a humane ethos absent from much contemporary poetry and sorely needed in our world today."
- ISBN10 1300178396
- ISBN13 9781300178392
- Publish Date 9 November 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 June 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 50
- Language English