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Babel
By Hamby, Barbara
- ISBN
- 978-0-82295-859-8
- Publisher
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 15, 2004
Iambic rhythm, repetition, alliteration, and internal rhyme: one sound leads to a related sound with little regard to sense, as the poems in Hamby's latest book (selected by Stephen Dunn as winner of the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry) rush down the page. Reading these poems feels like standing in a wind tunnel while a hurricane scatters a confluence of images, clichs, allusions, and not-so-subtle puns--such as...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
