From the Front of the Classroom

In these wide-ranging poems taking us from her early life through some difficult later years and on to her life as wife, mother, grandmother, and most of all, teacher and advocate of poetry, Elizabeth Thomas reveals the rich inner life that has made her such an inspiration to everyone who knows her and has learned from her. It is characteristic of the poet that one of the commendations on her book's back cover is by a former student, since she has devoted so much of her time to working with the young.