Divide These : Poems

Poet Saskia Hamilton, author of As for Dream, explores "where the pull of reverie becomes palpable and eerily seductive" (Poetry).

Only night First light
I will not quite
fit in this hole
nor you with
your long fingers
—from "Divide These"

These spare, evocative poems register things at the edge of our attention that confound our systems of belief. In Divide These, Saskia Hamilton brings delicate observation together with riveting assertion to make an original, unsettling music.

“Hamilton is able to sustain a complex narrative through stripped-down poems, some of which read almost like asides . . . leavened by a wry humor.” —The New York Times Book Review on As for Dream

“In Saskia Hamilton's As for Dream, spare, miraculously explosive lyrics track a struggle with erotic longing and renunciation and an equally transfixing immersion in family memories. What proves salvational is a wry, spirited self-chiding and a gallant, inspirational call to arms to work. The result: a sequence of supremely evocative poems.” —Alice Quinn, Bookforum on As for Dream