{"title":"Saskia Hamilton","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the insightful poetry and essays of Saskia Hamilton. Her work delves into themes of memory, loss, and resilience with lyrical precision. A rewarding discovery for readers of Elizabeth Bishop or Mark Doty.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"all-souls-book-saskia-hamilton-9781472158741","title":"All Souls","description":"A TLS, SPECTATOR AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023  FINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD FOR POETRY 2023  'Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia Hamilton - and of her poetry' Jorie Graham  'Full of delicate and muscular truths and graced with rare intelligence, this posthumous volume offers the gifts of a uniquely sensitive mind' Publisher's Weekly (starred review)  'To read Saskia Hamilton's opening poem in her forthcoming collection, All Souls, is to move through time in acts of seeing and of noting what is seen . . . For now, the day seems to say, Let the ordinary amaze, it's the grace we hold . . . Hamilton rests her sights on what can be apprehended from a bed, sofa, chair, or window, and named in the quotidian. These small recognitions ensure a life's weightiness, wariness, worthiness' Claudia Rankine  Who becomes familiar with mortal illness for very long. I was a stranger, \u0026amp;c. Not everyone appreciates it, no one finds being the third person becoming, it's never accurate, and then one is headed for the past tense.  Futurity that was once a lark, a gamble, a chance messenger, traffic and trade, under sail.  The boy touches your arm in his sleep for ballast. It's warm in the hold. Between ship and sky, the bounds of sight alone, sphere so bounded.  -from 'All Souls'  In All Souls, Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the highest order. Judgment is suspended as the poems and lyric fragments make an inventory of truths that carry us through 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. Marked with a new openness and freedom - a new way of saying that is itself a study of what can and can't be said-the poems give way to Hamilton's mind, and her unerring descriptions of everyday life: 'the asphalt velvety in the rain.'  The central suite of poems vibrates with a ghostly radioactive attentiveness, with care unbounded by time or space. Its impossible charge is to acknowledge and ease suffering with a gaze that both widens and narrows its aperture. Lightly told, told without sentimentality, the story is devastating. A mother prepares to take leave of a young son. Impossible departure. 'A disturbance within the order of moments.' One that can't be stopped, though in these poems language does arrest and in some essential ways fix time.  Tenderness, courage, refusal, and acceptance infuse this work, illuminating what Elizabeth Hardwick called 'the universal unsealed wound of existence.'","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745437557009,"sku":"NGR9781472158741","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53686107341073,"sku":"GOR015002331","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53686121824529,"sku":"GOR013466336","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1472158741.jpg?v=1751179033"},{"product_id":"divide-these-book-saskia-hamilton-9781555974220","title":"Divide These","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoet Saskia Hamilton, author of As for Dream, explores \"where the pull of reverie becomes palpable and eerily seductive\" (\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Only night First light\u003cbr\u003e I will not quite\u003cbr\u003e fit in this hole\u003cbr\u003e nor you with\u003cbr\u003e your long fingers\u003cbr\u003e --from \"Divide These\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e These spare, evocative poems register things at the edge of our attention that confound our systems of belief. 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Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling \"picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry,\" and she once begged him, \"Please never stop writing me letters--they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I've been re-reading Emerson) for several days.\" Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell's death in 1977.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Presented in \u003ci\u003eWords in Air\u003c\/i\u003e is the complete correspondence between Bishop and Lowell. The substantial, revealing--and often very funny--interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of America's most beloved and influential poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50297383223569,"sku":"CIN0374185433G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51084372640017,"sku":"GOR004789676","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51115034018065,"sku":"GOR006242860","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374185433.jpg?v=1750878497"},{"product_id":"selected-letters-of-robert-lowell-book-saskia-hamilton-9780571202041","title":"Selected Letters of Robert Lowell","description":"One of the most influential American poets of the twentieth century, Robert Lowell was also a prolific letter-writer who corresponded with some of the most remarkable writers and thinkers of his day, including Elizabeth Bishop, Edmund Wilson, Robert Kennedy, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, William Empson, T. 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They also illuminate another side of the intimate life that was the subject of so many of his poems: his deep friendships with other writers; the manic-depressive illness he struggled to endure and understand; and his marriages to three prose writers, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick and Caroline Blackwood.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50337779974417,"sku":"GOR005303022","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571202047.jpg?v=1751167714"},{"product_id":"as-for-dream-book-saskia-hamilton-9781555973162","title":"As for Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003eA series of brief, haunting lyrics and prose fragments, the poems in \u003ci\u003eAs for Dream\u003c\/i\u003e hover in suspension between states of consciousness or being. 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Judgment is suspended as the poems and lyric fragments make an inventory of truths that carry us through 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. Marked with a new openness and freedom--a new way of saying that is itself a study of what can and can't be said--the poems give way to Hamilton's mind, and her unerring descriptions of everyday life: \"the asphalt velvety in the rain.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The central suite of poems vibrates with a ghostly radioactive attentiveness, with care unbounded by time or space. Its impossible charge is to acknowledge and ease suffering with a gaze that both widens and narrows its aperture. Lightly told, told without sentimentality, the story is devastating. A mother prepares to take leave of a young son. 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Out the window,\u003cbr\u003e a lane to the right was bending away,\u003cbr\u003e taking with it the figure moving down it.\u003cbr\u003e Alone for a quarter of an hour,\u003cbr\u003e looking in, plotting the argument,\u003cbr\u003e all the marks of lucidity\u003cbr\u003e and brevity in that attempt,\u003cbr\u003e that benefit of rhetoric:\u003cbr\u003e the true but unlikely moment.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --from \"Summered\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCorridor\u003c\/i\u003e, Saskia Hamilton's third collection, is a study of motion and time. Its glanced landscapes, its lives seen in passing, render the immeasurable in broken narratives. These poems are succinct in order to travel quickly--they have unexpected distances within their reach. They are dauntless and alert in their apprehension of the natural kingdom at the frontier of so many unnatural ones. 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