At this troubled juncture in American history, when a deeply divisive war remains front page news, the restoration of Edward Thomas’ poems to print is worth noting. It is, as poet-critic Peter Sacks ...

Are nourished and invisibly repaired . . . In other words, some experience or vision, however fleetingly glimpsed, endures in memory as a redemptive and healing presence, to “renovate” and “repair” ...