Buttonhook Press
The 2025 O:JA&L Pamphlet Series
Poetry: All forms & styles
A Writer’s Portfolio
Larry D. Thomas
BESTIARY: Far West Texas
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About the writer:
LARRY D. THOMAS has published twenty-three print collections of poetry. The 2008 Texas Poet Laureate and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he has received numerous awards for his poetry, including two Western Heritage Wrangler Awards (National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum), the Spur Award (Western Writers of America), two Texas Review Poetry Prizes, the Violet Crown Book Award (Writers’ League of Texas) and nomination for the Poets’ Prize (Nicholas Roerich Museum). He resides in the Chihuahuan Desert of southwestern New Mexico.
Cover Image: Wildschweine (reproduction from an art book) by Franz Marc (1880-1916). Oil on canvas. 73.5 x 57.5 cm. 1913. Public domain.
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