Books by Rudy Thomas
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The muse in poetry has been the woman or goddess who is the source of a writer's creative energy. Poe's believed that the death of a beautiful woman was the ideal subject for poetry. W. B. Yeats always said his work was written only to make the indifferent Maud Gonne understand and therefore love him. The poetry of Dynamite, Poems For A Woman by Rudy Thomas was inspired by a woman and is lyrical in its tribute and tribulations.
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The Lady in Gray, edited by Rudy Thomas, is a collection of tales by student, staff, and family members of the Lindsey Wilson College Upward Bound program. Imagine, if you can, a house that is haunted by a lady dressed in a long, grey, flowing skirt, or discover why dogs and cats are enemies, or compare the tales of hunting, ghosts, weather saying and other themes from folklore to the stories you are famililar with and tell to others.
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Inciting a Write is a collection of lyric poetry addressed to a muse. The work includes new and previously published works.
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Making Up the Truth is a collection of previously published poetry and new works. The themes include a love of place, infatuation with a woman, war, family and truths that matter in life. President Jimmy Carter read the book and thanked the author for writing the poem, On the Poetry of Jimmy Carter.
5. Back to E is Rudy Thomas' third novel. The story centers around a well-known American writer who drank hard and was hard on women. In the book, he is a ghost, haunted by the ghost of a character he created in a novel that was published after his death by suicide. The second ghost believes the first ghost is God. Read the novel to understand why. The third character is a writer who house is haunted by both ghosts. Follow the adventures of the three from an A-frame in Kentucky to the Garden of Eden.
6. Song of the Uirapuru is Rudy Thomas' second novel published by Publish America. The story traces a writer's past as he lives in the present and comes to terms with his work as a contract operative in Brazil, Germany, Greece, and other parts of the world.
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7. Turning Out is a reprint of Rudy Thomas' first novel, a coming of age tale of a young man from the time he begins school in a rural, one-room Kentucky school until he graduate from high school and leave his home for college. In the foreword for the book, Jim Wayne Miller, Appalachian scholar and poet, wrote: It is possible to write well in Appalachia and write neither of urban and rural ghettos, social injustice, corporate greed, nor of old barns and railway stations. Rudy Thomas writes well.
8. Journeys the newest novel by Rudy Thomas is set in pre-Civil War Nashwille and the Civil War years in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, New York and Alabama. Cry, a young man who has turned eighteen, is sent to Nashville, Tennessee in 1859 to purchase a stallion from the Henry Clay line of winning thoroughbreds. In this coming of age novel, Cry does not get to bid on the horse. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader from Memphis, buys the horse before the auction begins. Cry is talked into buying a Fancy Gal at a second auction by an old man, Declaration Jones. Cry trades the Fancy Gal, a blue-eyed beauty to Forrest for the horse and is given a slave girl as boot. The young lady, Alyx, is an Irish victim of slavery. Cry becomes infatuated with the new slave girl, but loses both the horse and Alyx in Kentucky. Cry is recruited into the secret service of General George H. Thomas and spend the war years searching for Alyx and the horse he named Forrest.
9. Stealing Women & Robbing Trains is a collection of poetry about Frank and Jesse James. The book includes new information about the lives of the brothers, particulary their connections to Kentucky. Bill Samuels of Maker's Mark renoun shared information with the poet and that information is shared with the reader, mainly in the voice of Frank James.
10. Poems That Dance Across the Page and Down is a collection of poetry, published by Publish America. The collection deals with love, love lost, place, family and includes previously published works, as well as new material.
11. The Smile & Other Poems is a poetry collection dealing with the themes of place, love, friends, freindship, hope, and family.
12. The Way Morning Writes Poetry is a collection of poetry about place, love, love lost, and family. The image is from Amazon. Most of the titles listed here can be found on Amazon's website. The books feature a SEARCH INSIDE link that enable a reader to preview material before purchase. If you have never checked out this feature, visit Amazon.
13. The Rainbow Chaser is a book length play set in Kentucky, but the story deals with a man who shows up at his sister's house some 40 plus years after moving to California. The man's story is worthy and easy to comprehend.
14. Elusive Moments, Separate Feelings is a poetry collection for any reader who understands that to know fully one's self is difficult if not impossible. In the world of poetic experience, it is depth that counts and not width. Old Seventy Creek, the mountains and hollows of love, life and loss are shared from what the poet has experienced in life.
15. To Risk Again is a reprint of a collection of poetry. Each poem in the volume deals with an element of risk. The book is actually a book within a book, with an anthology of contemporary poetry by poets from the United States and other countries. Many of the poems have been previously published in literary magazines.
16. Rearranging Memory is the newest collection of poetry by Rudy Thomas. e e cummings wrote: Love does no more begin than it does end.
17. Two Books is a reprint and revision of The Ground of Memory and War Stories & Other Poems, early works by Rudy Thomas that have been out of print for many years. The poetry deals with family and the effects that death, love, and war have on individuals and communities.