Detroit & Selected Poems - Softcover

Hammial, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937679829 ISBN 13: 9781937679828

Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press, 2018

Synopsis

Detroit and the world

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About the Author

PHILIP HAMMIAL is an Australian American poet born in Detroit. He's published 30 books of poetry. He is a sculptor of distinction. Hammial was a member of Woodford Bush Fire Brigade 1995-2003 and fought fires that raged through the Blue Mountains. He is the winner of various important literary prizes.

Review

“Philip Hammial’s Detroit & Selected Poems is riddled with daring and chance. The voice, though well traveled—‘Rotterdam, Mombasa, Odessa’ or ‘Gdansk, Haiphong, Caracas’—seems, through playful juxtapositions of language and knowing humor, always located in Detroit. The characters of the poems, such as the ‘opener of a bear’s eye’ or monks who make ‘the sound that carries your mother home,’ dare to stare into ‘the face of Death.’ Hammial’s poetry transports the reader through an interior world where object and memory become metaphor, and, in the end, he leaves us like his speaker ‘in the maze blowing.’” (Yusef Komunyakaa)

About this edition

• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1937679829
• ISBN 13: 9781937679828
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288