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Thomas DeFreitas gives voice to his own wonder and worship in this collection that shows us "a metaphysical / Somerville, / where pigeons / recite scripture." The poems are prayers of joy and longing, where the poet dreams of "summer-limber dancers, " "the Armory, " and "a lake of grace." I know the places DeFreitas brings us, but in his poems, I'm greeted "with a mad patch / of song." His city-with its churches and church basements-is transfo...

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UNDER ALL SILENCES contains 87 of the poems found in Thomas DeFreitas's previous three books (Hubbub and Fiddle, The Crystal Tambourine, The Stopped Clock). This collection shows a young poet's experimentalism and a maturing poet's versatility within formal constraints. UNDER ALL SILENCES takes its title from a love sonnet by Edward Estlin Cummings.

HUBBUB AND FIDDLE contains eight sonnets, 13 ghazals, four villanelles, and two sestinas. Among them, you will find poems in praise of nature, God, Boston and its quieter suburbs, good books, cool weather, conviviality, and many other things--there are poems both serious and comic, with a definite bias toward the lighthearted! HUBBUB AND FIDDLE takes its title from the beautiful poem "Prologue" by Dylan Thomas.

This collection, the poet's sixth, contains the autobiographical sequence "Chasing the Waves, " in which the poet reminisces about various years in his early life. The volume also contains the meditative "Poem at Dawn" and the exuberant "Eighties Soundtrack.