All souls : poems /
In All Souls, Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation and memory into art of the highest order. The poems and lyric fragments make an inventory of truths that carries us through the night's reckoning with mortal hope into daylight. But even daylight, with its escapements and un...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Graywolf Press,
[2023].
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| Summary: | In All Souls, Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation and memory into art of the highest order. The poems and lyric fragments make an inventory of truths that carries us through the night's reckoning with mortal hope into daylight. But even daylight, with its escapements and unbreakable numbers, "restless / irregular light and shadow, awakened," can't appease the crisis of survival at the heart of this collection. Vibrating with a ghostly radioactive attentiveness, these poems record "a disturbance within the order of moments." Departure can't be stopped, but tenderness, courage, refusal and acceptance infuse this work, arresting and in some ways fixing time. |
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| Physical Description: | 86 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781644452639 1644452634 |