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Rift : Poems
Overview
Rift, the third collection from poet and psychologist Forrest Hamer, engages hauntingly with separations and reconciliations that are both personal and socio-historical. Hamer draws on his American experience--including his youth in Goldsboro, North Carolina--and his African heritage--including the tragic conflicts between Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda--to investigate memories, stories, and the way in which a poem is a "hopeful body." Yusef Kumunyakaa has described Hamer's poems as "calls into our modern wilderness that demand heartfelt responses," and Al Young compares them to "a Robert Johnson blues or a Thelonious Monk ballad; they] linger in the blood long after they enter the inner eye and ear."
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- ISBN-13: 9781884800757
- ISBN-10: 1884800750
- Publisher: Four Way Books
- Publish Date: April 2007
- Dimensions: 9.14 x 6.21 x 0.19 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.3 pounds
- Page Count: 58
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