"Hamilton is able to sustain a complex narrative through stripped-down poems . . . leavened by a wry humor." —
The New York Times Book Review
I wanted to read an essay in your wrist.The afternoon seemed endless. Out the window,a lane to the right was
Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that "you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend." The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling "picked up again to the proper table-land of
