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'Philip Hammial’s Detroit & Selected Poems is riddled with daring and chance. The voice, though well traveled—‘Rotterdam, Mombasa, Odessa’ or ‘Gdansk, Haiphong, Caracas’—seems, through playful juxtapositions of language and knowing humor, always located in Detroit. The characters of the poems, such as the ‘opener of a bear’s eye’ or monks who make ‘the sound that carries your mother home,’ dare to stare into ‘the face of Death.’ Hammial’s poetry transports the reader through an interior world where object and memory become metaphor, and, in the end, he leaves us like his speaker ‘in the maze blowing.’' (Publication summary)
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A Rich Crop From a Lean Year
2021
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review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 80 no. 2 2021;
— Review of Many Such as She : Victorian Australian Women Poets of World War One 2018 anthology poetry biography ; The Munchian O 2020 selected work poetry ; Yuiquimbiang 2019 selected work poetry ; Homer Street 2020 selected work poetry ; Guwayu — For All Times 2020 anthology poetry ; Detroit and Selected Poems 2018 selected work poetry
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A Rich Crop From a Lean Year
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 80 no. 2 2021;
— Review of Many Such as She : Victorian Australian Women Poets of World War One 2018 anthology poetry biography ; The Munchian O 2020 selected work poetry ; Yuiquimbiang 2019 selected work poetry ; Homer Street 2020 selected work poetry ; Guwayu — For All Times 2020 anthology poetry ; Detroit and Selected Poems 2018 selected work poetry
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