Description
Travel has always been Barbara Hamby's muse, and in Bird Odyssey she hits the road hard, riding a train across Siberia, taking a car trip from Memphis to New Orleans on Highway 61, and following The Odyssey from Troy to Ithaka. The concatenation of images released include Elvis and Tolstoy cruising through the sky in a pink Cadillac, Homer and Robert Johnson discussing their art in the Underworld, and the women in The Odyssey telling their side of the story, because what's a woman to do in this world of men? She has to strike out on her own, ask the right questions, and tell her own story, translating the world into her own bright lie.
About the Author
Barbara Hamby has published seven books of poetry, most recently Bird Odyssey and On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems. She was a 2010 Guggenheim fellow, and her book of linked stories, Lester Higata's 20th Century, won the 2010 University of Iowa John Simmons Award and was published by the University of Iowa Press. She and her husband David Kirby edited the poetry anthology Seriously Funny. She teaches at Florida State University where she is distinguished university scholar.
Reviews
Past praise for On the Street of Divine Love: ""The divine love in this book is at heart the love of poetry itself, and to partake of these poems is to share a measure of the poet's devotion."" - George Bradley, The Yale Review
Past praise for Babel: ""One has only to read a few pages of Babel to feel in the presence of a poet with a unique, many-layered consciousness, and a few more pages to realize that her considerable verbal dexterity and mastery of tone are qualities she's capable of sustaining. This is poetry that energizes, that dares to give us a high- wire performer's notion of a good time."" - Stephen Dunn, final judge for the AWP/Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
Book Information
ISBN 9780822965251
Author Barbara Hamby
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
About the Author
Barbara Hamby has published seven books of poetry, most recently Bird Odyssey and On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems. She was a 2010 Guggenheim fellow, and her book of linked stories, Lester Higata's 20th Century, won the 2010 University of Iowa John Simmons Award and was published by the University of Iowa Press. She and her husband David Kirby edited the poetry anthology Seriously Funny. She teaches at Florida State University where she is distinguished university scholar.
Reviews
Past praise for On the Street of Divine Love: ""The divine love in this book is at heart the love of poetry itself, and to partake of these poems is to share a measure of the poet's devotion."" - George Bradley, The Yale Review
Past praise for Babel: ""One has only to read a few pages of Babel to feel in the presence of a poet with a unique, many-layered consciousness, and a few more pages to realize that her considerable verbal dexterity and mastery of tone are qualities she's capable of sustaining. This is poetry that energizes, that dares to give us a high- wire performer's notion of a good time."" - Stephen Dunn, final judge for the AWP/Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
Book Information
ISBN 9780822965251
Author Barbara Hamby
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
