All Souls: Poems Hamilton Saskia
All Souls: Poems Hamilton Saskia In All Souls, Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the highest order. But even daylight--with its escapements and…
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All Souls: Poems Hamilton Saskia
In All Souls, Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the highest order. But even daylight--with its escapements and unbreakable numbers, "restless, / irregular light and shadow, awakened"--can't appease the crisis of survival at the heart of this collection. 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.
Its impossible charge is to acknowledge and ease suffering with a gaze that Marked with a new openness and freedom--a new way of saying that is itself a study of what can and can't be said--the 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.