"I adore this book... The lines don't flinch, they don't offer easy resolution, but struggle instead to uncover that dwindling quality earned through sacrifice and loss - truth."  K.P. Liles, author of "Singing Back the Darkness" and "Spring Hunger"

"Six Truths: fifty sonnets" represents Tom Begich's first foray into published poetry, though he has been writing all his life. These fifty sonnets, culled from a lifetime of experience, illustrate those six themes that Begich calls "truths": Love, Loss, Lust, War, Time and Distance. At times wry and at others searing, these sonnets seek to re-engage us with the form in ways that are at once modern and timeless.

Illustrated by Fred Jenkins, with cover art by KeseyPollock, this is an important part of any Tom Begich collection.

"Muscular, whimsical, and with a deep undertow of yearning and loss -- Begich's poems speak, cajole and whisper to us in a rigorous vernacular all their own."  Jesse Browner, author of "Everything Happens Today"

"In Begich's work, the quiet napkin on the lap can gather the power of blanket, of salve. Beneath its skinny paper may lurk the lusty voices of the world's 'shameful pigs' or the sort of 'pomegranate juice that rises above innuendo and transforms into the sweetest of gallows... This is an observant, daring, and essential debut."  Mathew Galvin Frank, author of "The Morrow Plots" and "Barolo"