Fossil Fuel Tapa blanda - 2015

DAVID E. THOMAS grew up on the Hi-Line in North-central Montana. He graduated from the University of Montana then found himself on the streets of San Francisco where he began his literary education. Economic realities drove him to work on railroad gangs, big construction projects like Libby Dam and other labor intensive jobs. He has traveled in the United States, Mexico and Central America. He has published four books of poems, Fossil Fuel, Buck's Last Wreck, The Hellgate Wind and Waterworks Hill. He has poems in the anthologies The Last Best Place and Poems across the Big Sky and New Poets of the American West and has recently published poems in Romania, Blue Collar Review and Cedilla 6 and 7. Most recently his essay "Gothic Days" appeared in The Complete Montana Gothic edited by Peter Koch which also features Thomas's earliest published work. He currently lives in Missoula, Montana.