A Small Thing Like a Breath

Published October, 1993 – Poetry Collection

“A Small Thing Like A Breath” represents Tony Abbott at his best. It is a warm and beautiful, and beautifully accomplished book of unusual range in subject matter and technique. There are subjective and objective poems, poems in close about personal relationships and poems ‘far from home’ that show Abbott’s wide acquaintance with the world, and some of the most delightul poems about dogs that I have read.
— Charles Edward Eaton

These are poems that are achingly real, as so much current poetry is not. These poems are about people, and about the moments in our lives that change us forever -they are about joy, about loss, about the dark places of the heart. These poems are not about word-play, or cleverness. They are about us.
— Lee Smith