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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A varied and beautiful collection,
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This review is from: Ossabaw (Salt Modern Poets Series) (Paperback)
David Hamilton, memoirist, essayist, master of beautiful sentences, is an elegant poet. He is wide awake in these poems that range and play between lyricism ("Lovesong from the Marshes"), poetic memoir (the delightful "Not at All Byzantine") , Gertrude Stein-isms ("Slender Batons") , ekphrastics ("The Blue He Seized," "Van Gogh Dropped"). There are scenes from his childhood Missouri farm, his passions for old English, Spain, family history, the pull of erotic memory. "Beige and Avocado" is a gorgeous and sad narrative, all the more affecting for the other memories of adolescence dotted here and there. The long title poem uses fragmented lyric to recreate the visceral experience of Ossabaw, a nature preserve off the coast of Georgia. One of the great pleasures of this book is the quiet appearance of birds, the view of a dogwood, early trillium, Hamilton's affinity for the natural world. Another is his humanity and easy wit. I loved this voice telling this life.
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Ossabaw (Salt Modern Poets Series) by David Hamilton (Paperback - March 1, 2006)
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