{"title":"Saskia Hamilton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaskia Hamilton\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a distinctive voice within the realm of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, weaving together poetry and prose with a keen sensitivity to memory and loss. Her work invites readers into intimate reflections that explore the intricacies of human experience with delicate precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough contemplative themes and lyrical expression, Hamilton’s writing resonates deeply with those drawn to thoughtful literary art. Her titles, such as \u003cem\u003eAll Souls\u003c\/em\u003e, reveal a profound engagement with both personal and cultural histories, enriching the landscape of contemporary literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"all-souls-by-saskia-hamilton-9781472158741","title":"All Souls","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD FOR POETRY 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia Hamilton - and of her poetry' Jorie Graham\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Full of delicate and muscular truths and graced with rare intelligence, this posthumous volume offers the gifts of a uniquely sensitive mind' \u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'To read Saskia Hamilton's opening poem in her forthcoming collection, \u003ci\u003eAll Souls\u003c\/i\u003e, is to move through time in acts of seeing and of noting what is seen . . . For now, the day seems to say, Let the ordinary amaze, it's the grace we hold . . . Hamilton rests her sights on what can be apprehended from a bed, sofa, chair, or window, and named in the quotidian. These small recognitions ensure a life's weightiness, wariness, worthiness' Claudia Rankine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho becomes familiar with mortal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eillness for very long. I was a stranger, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNot everyone appreciates it, no one finds being the third person becoming, it's never accurate, and then one is headed for the past tense.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFuturity that was once a lark, a gamble, a chance messenger, traffic and trade, under sail.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe boy touches your arm in his sleep for ballast. It's warm in the hold. Between ship and sky, the bounds of sight alone, sphere so bounded.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-from \u003ci\u003eAll Souls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAll Souls\u003c\/i\u003e, Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the highest order. 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. 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. 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.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe central suite of poems vibrates with a ghostly radioactive attentiveness, with care unbounded by time or space. Its impossible charge is to acknowledge and ease suffering with a gaze that both widens and narrows its aperture. Lightly told, told without sentimentality, the story is devastating. A mother prepares to take leave of a young son. Impossible departure. 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