Tracks in Snow

Tracks in Snow is a collection of short, lyric poems inspired by the author's life. Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up as a biracial child in northern Appalachia and later moved to New York City, where he lives now. These candid, compact poems focus on themes of alienation and belonging, closeness to nature, eventual parenthood, and aging. Each poem contains careful observation of detail-the flapping of a bird's wing, the sound of a mantra, the smell of smoldering charcoal briquettes-and a conceptual twist that casts new light on the subject.