The poetry of Sally Thomas’s Among the Living displays remarkable grace—in both the literary and religious senses. Her poems beautifully observe the natural world, and then advance to memorable meditations about the world we can sense, but cannot observe.
  —A. M. Juster, author of Wonder & Wrath

There is an inner stillness and solitude in Sally Thomas’s captivating new collection Among the Living, which makes every single poem an expression not only of exquisite physical detail but also of a vibrant spiritual life. In verses that are beautifully and satisfyingly crafted, Thomas penetrates the life of a hermit, and brings us into the simple yet profound truths of other relationships and scenes. This is poetry that illuminates the most authentic and essential aspects of experience in a lyrical style that reminds us how quotable and appealing poetry can be. Thomas’s forms bring us the music we often seem to have lost in poetry; her depths make the reader realize what we too often neglect in life.
  —Sally Read, editor of 100 Great Catholic Poems

If soul can be found where the inner and outer worlds overlap, the hermit persona of the remarkable sonnet sequence that forms Part One of Sally Thomas’s new collection searches out the lessons of that space. The primal church or sanctuary is Nature as theophany, the “cool blue nave” of the hermit’s known world, because (as the last poem in the book says) “All the world’s a mirror.” The second half of the book brings this mirroring to the situations of the poet’s everyday life, and it does this with a marvelous variety of formal effects and music. Like the hermit himself, Thomas’s poetry persuades us to listen, again and again, for what cannot quite be named.
  —Andrew Frisardi, author of The Moon on Elba