"Anyone who has walked the dry, dusty hills outside Alpine, at 
the foot of the Davis Mountains, will know a little of what Larry 
Thomas writes about, with mastery and skill, and deep 
understanding. Larry Thomas grew up in this hot, dry country, 
where survival was everything, and the terrors of nature were 
spiritual lessons. His poems, taut, taciturn, chiseled out of the 
silence he learned there, are achingly pure lyrics . . . and are 
fables in their own way. These poems celebrate a place I love, a 
hard place, but one of rare beauty and depth, and, in its own way, 
an altar of strange gods."—Paul Christensen

"With intensity and delight, Larry Thomas evokes two major 
concerns in his new volume: the drama of the land and the wonders 
of perception. And again, as we've seen in his finer work before, 
it's the immediacy of story that gives his work its gritty yet lyrical 
texture."—James Hoggard

"Where Skulls Speak Wind glitters like a mosaic. In each poem, 
Larry Thomas reveals a facet of life in the unforgiving but 
luminous landscape of the Southwest: cobalt skies over Taos, the 
silence of a ghost town where 'a rustle of wind is a scream,' a 
small village 'peppering the mountainside / like fragments of a 
torn piñata.' Seamlessly interweaving ancestral triumphs and 
losses with the larger workings of geography and culture, Thomas 
makes believers, and admirers, of us all."—Carol Coffee Reposa 

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LARRY D. THOMAS, born and raised in West Texas, currently 
resides in Houston and Galveston. His three previous poetry 
collections received several prizes and awards: Amazing Grace, the 
2001 Texas Review Poetry Prize, the 2003 Western Heritage Award 
for the Outstanding Poetry Book of 2002, and a 2002 Spur Award 
Finalist citation (Western Writers of America); The Woodlanders, a 
2002 Violet Crown Book Award Special Citation (Writers' League of 
Texas); and The Lighthouse Keeper, a Small Press Review  
"pick-of-the-issue." Among the numerous national journals that 
have published his poetry and reviews are International Poetry 
Review, Louisiana Literature, Poet Lore, Puerto del Sol, Southwest 
Review, The Texas Observer, and The Texas Review. His poems 
have been anthologized in the Anthology of Magazine Verse & 
Yearbook of American Poetry (1997 edition), The Big Roundup, 
New Texas (2001, 2002 and 2003), and Texas in Poetry 2.