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unusual light source

by Caroline O’Connor Thomas $12

Paperback book, 38 pages

unusual light source connects human emotion to environmental surroundings with explorative curiosities, moving through different landscapes & sceneries to discover that slant of light in the darkest parts of life.

Cover art by Lindsey Shea.

“When we take off

our shoes at our desks,

are are the noise

of the light…(from Unusual Light Source)”

“Citrus Taxonomy” Candle $16

The “Citrus Taxonomy” candle is evocative of the poetry in unusual light source. With high citrus notes, it is uplifting, energetic, & like Caroline’s poetry, it shines light even in the darkest of niches.

Scent Notes: Blood Orange. Lemon Peel. Mandarin. Green Leaves. Ozone. Bergamot.

Adornments: Blood Orange & Greenery.

Soy Wax Candle by Marvel + Moon in a 4oz. black matte tin

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What others are saying about O’Connor Thomas’ unusual light source:

“Caroline O’Connor Thomas’s bewitching, hexavalent poems roam city streets, grocery stores, and Mesa, Arizona, remembering to be curious and suspicious of light, love, wide open spaces, to wear ‘newly mad animal,’ to be bewildered. Through sleep and waking, through ‘The new mobility of everything’, Unusual Light Source offers an invigorating, gorgeous ride.”

-Mary Cisper, author of Dark Tussock Moth

”The intensity, wild precision, humor, fierce intelligence, and original thinking of these poems is stunning. These are the knockout poems of a new surrealist, continually rediscovering the old lesson that her world is equally as interesting as her imagination, and language itself. In love and despair and hope this poet careens from experience to experience, and we get to ride along, a great vertiginous privilege. Buy and treasure this book: it is the herald of an important new voice in American poetry.”

-Matthew Zapruder, author of Why Poetry

”In Unusual Light Source Caroline O’Connor Thomas gives the reader what might otherwise seem ineffable, a preservation of innocence, a speaker whose vulnerability bursts with glee, humor and terror. Clever moments bare emotive surges, so that just as the reader smiles at a maneuver like a punctuation mark as imagery, they also feel the benefits of “Sunlight in Recommended Doses.” Lines meet the page with a high tone “velocity”, dark, funny, and totally exposed all at once. Read these rooms. They have good light.”

-Sara Mumolo, author of Day Counter and Mortar​

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CAROLINE O’CONNOR THOMAS

Caroline O'Connor Thomas is a poet from the Hudson Valley. She co-edits Maiden Magazine. Her poems have appeared in several publications, including Tin House, Sixth Finch, Vinyl, Salt Hill, Ghost Proposal & others. After ten years in Oakland, CA she now lives in Portland, OR.