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D. M. Thomas. The Puberty Tree: New & Selected Poems. Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng. Bloodaxe (Dufour, distr.). 1993 ((C) 1992). 192 pages. $18.95.
D. M. Thomas's reputation as a successful novelist, in particular with The White Hotel, Russian Nights (a quintet), and, more recently, Flying in to Love has tended to overshadow his work as a poet. Still, it was as a poet that Thomas began his career in 1968 when he was published in Penguin Modern Poets II and, almost as a kind of simultaneous gesture, launched his first full collection, Two Voices. Since 1968, Thomas has managed to turn out five other collections--Logan Stone (1971), The Shaft (1973), Love and Other Deaths (1975), The Honeymoon Voyage (1978), Dreaming in...