Carol Vanderveer Hamilton
PoetryARCTIC The invisible spheres were formed in fright . Melville Darkness elides all distinctions: beauty and rank, color and age, advancing like a colonizing nation through the wounds and fissures of daylight until occupation has that cold, clear character so admired by explorers of the North when, in a fever, they gazed on the ice and hallucinated distant cities blazing above their rivers, the Thames, the Seine, the Rhine. Soothed by the shortwave radio, they dreamed of improbable rescues until darkness and cold made a meal of them, expelling their bodies at dawn. Then there was nothing to hear except avalanches and random explosions offshore, in the visible world they had left behind for good. Blindsight
Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005 "Hamilton’s poetry is remarkable in its longing for another world, a world in which justice is achieved or at least possible. Hers is not simply a poetry of conscience (although it is that sometimes) but an attempt to imagine--in surreal, embodied, or abstract terms--the experience of liberation and change." "American Writers and the Sacco-Vanzetti Case"
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