A Dark Dreamboat of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr

A Dark Dreamboat of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton
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Poetry. Edited by Ben Estes and Alan Felsenthal. Introduction by Geof Hewitt. Though Hamilton wrote thousands of poems during his lifetime, only a small percentage of them ever found their way into print. His poems appeared in small poetry journals during the 60s, 70s and 80s; two chapbooks, The Big Parade and Sphinx; and one full-length collection, The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton, published by The Jargon Society in 1970. In this new volume, Ben Estes and Alan Felsenthal present a collection of Hamilton's poems from these publications, along with many of Hamilton's poems that were previously considered lost and poems from posthumously found notebooks.

"Hamilton is the author of spare, wry, slightly surreal poems that have, so far as I can see, no real equivalent in American English."â€”Ron Silliman

"Alfred Starr Hamilton 'wrote to the governor of poetry / And simply signed [his] own name.' Consider this collectionâ€”assembled by two very dedicated allographersâ€”an essential expansion on said letter. People who've encountered Hamilton's work previously will be glad for the chance to see familiar poems alongside many marvelous new ones. And how I envy first-time readers of this most generous and genuine American writer."â€”Graham Foust

"It is a hidden world, a hushabye place that Alfred Starr Hamilton occupies, a secluded place where he is free to summon daffodils and stars, chimes and angels, thread and old-fashioned spoons. There is Hungarian damage, blue revolutionary stars, a sedge hammer (which is not a typo). He is obsessively drawn to fine metalsâ€”bronze, silver and gold. He would be golden, but can never grasp the elusive sad: 'One cloud, one day / Came as a shadow in my life / And then left, and came back again; and stayed' like "Anything Remembered" which is the title of that poem. He is too removed to see things any other way but his own. It is a silver peepshow in the wonderbush, and there is always a moon to scrape from the bottom of his view."â€”C. D. Wright

"We are living in the Badlands. Dorothy's ruby-slippers would get you across the Deadly Desert. So will these poems."â€”Jonathan Williams
Country USA
Brand Brand: The Song Cave
Manufacturer The Song Cave
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber RKC2010975371
ReleaseDate 2013-02-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780988464308

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: The Song Cave
Manufacturer	The Song Cave
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	RKC2010975371
ReleaseDate	2013-02-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780988464308

A Dark Dreamboat of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton

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