ABIGAIL THOMAS POEMS
from Good Evening & Other Poems, The Penumbra Press, 1979
13 of 18
only one boy (new york)
by Abigail Thomas
(formerly, Abigail Luttinger, 1979)
Stay tuned for an Abigail Thomas poem every Wednesday for the next 19 weeks. If you missed the introduction to Abigail’s poems click on this link: https://medium.com/the-journal-of-radical-wonder/abigail-thomas-good-evening-other-poems-from-long-ago-cda99fb9a5b0
Abigail Thomas, the daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell), is the mother of four children and the grandmother of twelve. Her academic education stopped when, pregnant with her oldest daughter, she was asked to leave Bryn Mawr during her first year. She’s lived most of her life on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and was for a time a book editor and for another time a book agent. Then she started writing for publication. Her first three books “Getting Over Tom,” “An Actual Life,” and “Herb’s Pajamas” were works of fiction. Her memoir, “A Three Dog Life,” was named one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. It won the 2006 Inspirational Memoir Award given by Books for A Better Life. She is also author of “Safekeeping,” a memoir, and “Thinking About Memoir,” and “What Comes Next and How to Like It” was published by Scribner in 2014. Her new book “Still Life at Eighty: the next interesting thing, is out from Golden Notebook Press, 2023.
Some of her poems in this collection previously appeared in the following publications: Chowder Review, Gravida, Hanging Loose, Kayak, Madrona, Moving Out, The Nation, The Paris Review, Poetry Now, The Titmouse Review, Wind.
