{"product_id":"babel-9780822958598","title":"Babel","description":"Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images, and scenes that are at once unique and immediately recognizable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn poems such as \"Six, Sex, Say,\" she displays a linguistic bravado that moves effortlessly through translations, cognates, and homonyms. This love of words permeates the poems, from the husband wooing his future wife \"with a barrage of words so cunningly fluent, \/ so linguistically adroit\" in \"Flesh, Bone, and Red,\" to the alphabetic sampler woven from memory and love in \"Ode on My Mother's Handwriting.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHamby's poems drift across histories and continents, from early writing and culture in Mesopotamia through the motion-picture heaven that seems so much like Paris, to odes on such thoroughly American subjects as hardware stores, bubblegum, barbecue, and sharp-tongued cocktail waitresses giving mandatory pre-date quizzes to lawyers and \"orangutans in the guise of men.\" As Booklist noted in reviewing her previous collection, Hamby's poems \"are tsunamis carrying you far out to sea and then back to shore giddy and glad to be alive.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Hamby\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eHoloholo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBird Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOn the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eBurn\u003c\/i\u003e is her eighth book of poems. In 2010 her book of stories about Hawai'i, \u003ci\u003eLester Higata's 20th Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Iowa\/John Simmons Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand many other magazines. She teaches at Florida State University, where she is distinguished university scholar, and lives in Tallahassee, Florida.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51807139004690,"sku":"9780822958598","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b038c160-3de8-4511-862e-d50f7f26282a.jpg?v=1766043515","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/babel-9780822958598","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}