Overview :Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas,... Read More
Overview :The world is burning with fire and hatred, but at the same time it is filled with love and incredible beauty. The poems in Burn tango with w... Read More
Overview :Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas,... Read More
Overview :Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 1994. Barbara Hamby makes her poems out of jokes, Italian phrases, quotes from saints and philo... Read More
Overview :Travel has always been Barbara Hamby's muse, and in Bird Odyssey she hits the road hard, riding a train across Siberia, taking a car trip fr... Read More
Overview :Holoholo is the Hawaiian word for walking out with no destination in mind. In the three sections of this book, Barbara Hamby walks out into ... Read More
Overview :This collection is a love letter to language with poems that are drunk and filled with references to the hyperkinetic world of the twenty-fi... Read More
Overview :Perhaps Paul Kareem Taylor said it best in his piece called On the Road Again: Barbara Hamby's American Odyssey "Reading Barbara Hamby's poe... Read More
Overview :Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns ... Read More