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Informationen zum Autor Saskia Hamilton (1967-2023) was the author of four collections of poetry, As for Dream , Divide These , Corridor , and All Souls . She was the editor of several volumes of poetry and letters, including The Letters of Robert Lowell , and was the co-editor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell . Her edition of The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle received the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation and the Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters from the Modern Language Association. She was also the recipient of an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She taught for many years at Barnard College. Klappentext Who becomes familiar with mortal illness for very long. I was a stranger, &c. Not everyone appreciates it, no one finds being the third person becoming, it's never accurate, and then one is headed for the past tense. Futurity that was once a lark, a gamble, a chance messenger, traffic and trade, under sail. The boy touches your arm in his sleep for ballast. It's warm in the hold. Between ship and sky, the bounds of sight alone, sphere so bounded. -from 'All Souls' Vorwort The astonishing final collection by beloved US poet and author, the late Saskia Hamilton. These poems are a breathtaking legacy, as Jorie Graham says, 'celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia Hamilton - and of her poetry.' Zusammenfassung The astonishing final collection by beloved US poet and author, the late Saskia Hamilton. These poems are a breathtaking legacy, as Jorie Graham says, 'celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia Hamilton - and of her poetry.'...
