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Rift: Poems


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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9781884800757
Edition: First edition.
ISBN: 1884800750
Label: Four Way Books
Manufacturer: Four Way Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 58
Publication Date: March 09, 2007
Publisher: Four Way Books
Release Date: March 09, 2007
Studio: Four Way Books


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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Rift, the third collection from poet and psychologist Forrest Hamer, engages hauntingly with separations and reconciliations that are both personal and socio-historical. Hamer draws on his American experience--including his youth in Goldsboro, North Carolina--and his African heritage--including the tragic conflicts between Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda--to investigate memories, stories, and the way in which a poem is a "hopeful body." Yusef Kumunyakaa has described Hamer's poems as "calls into our modern wilderness that demand heartfelt responses," and Al Young compares them to "a Robert Johnson blues or a Thelonious Monk ballad; [they] linger in the blood long after they enter the inner eye and ear."








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