Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes
Lesbian. Poetry. Queer. LGBT studies. Ekphrastic poems. Persona poems. Love poems. Maternal poems.
"Extraordinarily good work. So multivalenced, hard-hitting, delicate and continually surprising." Marilyn Hacker
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Art, children, marriage, breaking, rejoicing. Love is a many-branched tree and in Hamilton's newest poetry collection, her third, it's autumn or winter, the winds are kicking up and branches are flying everywhere — bursting into a thousand shapes. Or maybe it's Hamilton's heart that explodes into many dimensions. Tender, furious, grief-stricken, witty, urbane, elegiac, political, personal, erotic — these poems are all those things. Hamilton can't stop loving big no matter how chancy it is.
All these shapes lend raw material for a poem: Mothers lose their babies. A boy loses his leg to war. A girl hides from serial killer Richard Speck. A virgin gets pregnant. Women tumble into love, celebratory and foolhardy.
Frank and elemental, LOVE WILL BURST INTO A THOUSAND SHAPES reminds us that life is worth everything we can throw at it.
"In her new collection of poetry — ekphrastic, maternal, erotic — Jane Eaton hamilton writes with grace, vigrou, and brilliant colour." Ellis Avery
"Jazzy and engaging. Hamilton proves herself to be a real wordsmith, with a trickster's soul and a heart as big as New Mexico. The poems are enlightening, risky, rough, funny as hell and ultimately very moving." Barry Dempster
- Author
- Jane Eaton Hamilton
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 112
- Publisher
- Caitlin Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781927575574
- Genres
- poetry, queer, canada, lgbt
- Release date
- 2014
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