Thirst for Beginners: Poems, Prose, and Quizzes is written somewhere near the states of melancholy, loneliness, introspection, acceptance, and laughter. Thomas Lucky Richards wrote these poems hoping to find real avenues for living without destroying the trails of his quixotic quests. His stories and prose wander about the landscape of Italo Calvino, and his quizzes twist the dial filling the room with nitrous oxide causing us to laugh at the state we've now found ourselves in.