All Souls
β Scribed by Saskia Hamilton
- Book ID
- 112874562
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781644452646
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β¦ Synopsis
In All Souls, Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the highest order. Judgment is suspended as the poems and lyric fragments make an inventory of truths that carry us through night's reckoning with mortal hope into daylight. But even daylightβwith its escapements and unbreakable numbers, "restless, / irregular light and shadow, awakened"βcan't appease the crisis of survival at the heart of this collection. Marked with a new openness and freedomβa new way of saying that is itself a study of what can and can't be saidβthe poems give way to Hamilton's mind, and her unerring descriptions of everyday life: "the asphalt velvety in the rain."
The central suite of poems vibrates with a ghostly radioactive attentiveness, with care unbounded by time or space. Its impossible charge is to acknowledge and ease suffering with a gaze that both widens and narrows its aperture. Lightly told, told without...
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