Canal
Published on 8. August 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
100 pages
978-1-904614-15-9 (ISBN)
Description
Because she was no longer present. Nor was he. Because although you knew, your body observing them go, and their bodies emptying, that they might pass through a dream or two, or the electrical wires, no more illusion than illusion, terminus than terminus - You spoke to them, to yourself, but you were not listening. Used the wrong instrument for insight. "Canal" is Saskia Hamilton's first volume of poetry to be published in the UK, and contains work from two collections previously published in America - "As for Dream" (2001) and "Divide These" (2005) - as well as new work.
Reviews / Votes
"Spare, evocative, luminous, her poems register things at the edge of our attention, "the ambit where dream, memory, imagination and longing pass into and through one another." (Kirkus Review) "Saskia Hamilton is not a quiet poet, just an extremely subtle and fierce one. There is a quality of spiritual stubbornness and astonishing resilience that courses through even her briefest utterances." Jorie Graham "Hamilton is able to sustain a complex narrative through stripped-down poems... leavened by a wry humor." The New York Times Book Review"More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lancs
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-904614-15-9 (9781904614159)
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Person
SASKIA HAMILTON was born in Washington D.C in 1967 and educated at Kenyon College and New York University. She is author of As for Dream (2001) and Divide These (2005), both from Graywolf Press, and the editor of The Letters of Robert Lowell (Faber, 2005). She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.