Entering History: Poems [Hardcover]

Ive read, loved, admired, enjoyed, and was generally knocked out byThe poems seem both vast and focused or intimate& Theres nothing special about being a poet, the poet says, but theres lots special about poetry thats alert to the secret vibrations of contemporary life& These terrifying and glorious poems brim with proof of the powers of the poets transfiguring imagination.A beautifully readable book. Intelligence permeates each phrase; [Hammonds] language is alive to corruptions and multiplicities of sense& Her wit is an instrument of moral intelligence.Lyrical narratives that chroniclea long marriage, rich with wit,dark irony, and poignancy.