{"product_id":"9781555976750","title":"Corridor : Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eCorridor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Saskia Hamilton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Hamilton is able to sustain a complex narrative through stripped-down poems . . . leavened by a wry humor.\" —\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI wanted to read an essay in your wrist.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe afternoon seemed endless. Out the window,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ea lane to the right was bending away,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003etaking with it the figure moving down it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlone for a quarter of an hour,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003elooking in, plotting the argument,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eall the marks of lucidity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand brevity in that attempt,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat benefit of rhetoric:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe true but unlikely moment.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e            —from \"Summered\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. And they inhabit the realm of contemplation which, for Hamilton, is charged with eros.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Focused on each ‘rib and spine or\/ rafter and beam' of language, Hamilton delivers a collection of deceptively brief, lean poems. . . . Strangers' voices drift in and out like mist, and there is always a studied lack of clarity that gives the collection an irresistible tension.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The pulsing motor in each poem is keen intelligence about complex relationship and their unimpeachable truths. It is unlike anything else, Hamilton's fundamental use of soil and earth to make a cradle for significant ideas. These are terse honest emotions, internal struggles as subtext, held up against the simple logic of country life. She takes the rusted machinery of the world and makes it beautiful.” —\u003ci\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hamilton's writing has been called spare and delicate, but neither of these quite gets at the effect of her poems, which are delicate only in the way a suspension bridge is: neither is marked by unnecessary ornament or fragility, and it would be a mistake to regard either as anything other than rigorously tough.” —\u003ci\u003eRaymond McDaniel, Boston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There is much to be discovered in this collection, where tenderness and detachment, intimacy and distance, conversation and poetry thoughtfully coexist. In Corridor, Saskia Hamilton displays a breadth of historical, poetical, and linguistic awareness I rarely find. I want to read these poems again and again as I look at their resounding, narrow spaces for clues to the humanity there.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781555976750\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40595494863054,"sku":"9781555976750","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_8705209c-a8f6-44fa-acd6-4e065b249fc0.jpg?v=1637833458","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781555976750","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}