Poetry

“This collection is rich in a multitude of examples of inter-connectedness with the world, identification with paintings, a variety of journeys culminating in revelation and aesthetic trans

“. . . an unforgettable youth and a father’s loving grief.”

“Here again is the temporal brutality of love eternalizing loss. J. D. McClatchy’s muscularly graceful poems of passion, sex and death haunt the heart, linger in the mind.”

“Hamby’s work stands as an argument against those who claim that poetry is just plain dull. It’s hard to resist a whirl On the Street of Divine Love.”

"The collection is a chronicle of practice and refining performance."

“. . . [an] entertaining collection of poetic high jinx.”

Have you ever wondered why books of poetry, unless they span the whole of a writer’s life and work, are so slim?

“. . . [provides a] wealth of insights . . .”

“Fear and desire, silence and passion, beauty and death . . .”

“. . . breezily contemporary in feel, yet deeply lyrical in quality and effect.”

For more than half a century most mainstream, accessible, non-experimental, American poetry has been autobiographical.

“Her style never obtrudes on her subject or that quiet sense of transcendence. . . . We are clearly at home in these deep, rich poems.”