Known by the Darkling Thrush

About the Book

In his deservedly famous poem The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy looks out over a desolate landscape which seems to reflect his own forlorn sense of what the world has become. Against the gloomy backdrop he suddenly sees and then hears a decrepit bird, an old thrush, that holds forth in song. Its cheery note is so anomalous to his dark thoughts that it makes him think the bird must know something he does not. Hence my own title. Since, in a world gone to bloody hell, I find yet much to celebrate, my song is Known By the Darkling Thrush.

About the Author

Within this book lie such poems as their writer finds worth salvaging. Who else will so deem them doesn’t so much matter. What matters is that they be set down in print, a testament in final, supreme gratitude for such quality of life rarely permitted anyone to get away with living. So saith T.J. King, who discovered and perfected the Best Revenge.