Thirst for Beginners

This collection gathers poems, prose pieces and quizzes by Thomas Lucky Richards. Its moods shift between melancholy, loneliness, self-examination, acceptance and humor. The poems are an attempt to find workable ways of getting through life while keeping hold of the restless, idealistic pursuits that drive him.

The prose pieces roam across terrain reminiscent of Italo Calvino's fiction, and the quizzes take a playful, giddy turn that invites readers to laugh at the odd situations they find themselves in.