While his in-laws run the farm, [Don] Thompson teaches state inmates at a nearby minimum-security prison skills to cope with life upon release. He's kept his writing so quiet that some relatives still don't know that he's a serious poet.Thompson's poems tend to be lyrically charged, highly personal meditations based on a lifelong immersion in Central California's agricultural landscape--"flatlands with no skyline/except a few silos" and "furrows, straight and narrow," grapevines "snarled in their own freedom" and hawks "at ease in the emptiness."
from The Los Angeles Times: Planted in the San Joaquin
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