Angle of Incidence: Shades

(Diálogos Books) This double volume of original poems, which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, is a poetic travelogue collecting meditations on place, temporality, and the life of the past from the poet’s extensive travels in Europe, the Middle East, and South America. This collection is a series of ekphrastic poems based on paintings by modern masters, including Edward Hopper, Pablo Picasso, and Francis Bacon. Thompson is a translator and teaches modern languages and literature at Roger Williams University. He edits Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation.