Editorial Review
“The open-hearted poetry […] delighted me. Hamilton’s enthusiasm for life and language is infectious in this collection, which celebrates art, life and love […]Hamilton is a poet deserving of a larger US audience.”
—Julie R. Enszer, Lambda Literary
“Artful and globetrotting poetic exploration of matters of the heart runs the gamut. Yes, there’s excitement (“Tomorrow I will show you to everyone I love / and dream of marrying you”) and erotic highs (“she peeled me so I came apart / in sections juicy and dripping through her hands”). But there are plenty of end-of-romance lows too.”
—Brett Josef Grubisic, Xtra West
"Jane Eaton Hamilton’s raw and crippling precise poetry is a bit like your first grasp of Picasso. It doesn’t happen with one painting (or one poem). It is the result of accumulated brilliance.”
—Michael Dennis
“In her new collection of poetry — ekphrastic, maternal, erotic — Jane Eaton Hamilton writes with grace, vigour, and brilliant colour.”
—Ellis Avery
“Extraordinarily good work. So multivalence, hard-hitting, delicate and continually surprising.”
—Marilyn Hacker
“love will burst into a thousand shapes is jazzy and engaging. Hamilton proves herself to be a real wordsmith, with a trickster’s soul and a heart as big as New Mexico. The poems are enlightening, risky, rough, funny as hell, and ultimately very moving.”
—Barry Dempster
"In writing ‘every time we fucked it was brand new, brand new‘ Hamilton summons her reader to participate in this intimate newness. These poems are too luscious, too seductively vexatious to read at arm’s length.”
—Amber Dawn
“A book to read and re-read many times. Thrilling, muscular and elegiac, this is one of the finest poetry collections I have ever read.”
—Marnie Woodrow
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