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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

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 112
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781927575574
  • Genres
  • poetry, queer, canada, lgbt
  • Release date
  • 2014