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Book SynopsisLyrical narratives that chronicle a long marriage, rich with wit, dark irony, and poignancy.
Trade Review"I’ve read, loved, admired, enjoyed, and was generally knocked out by
Entering History. [Hammond] is sui generis as a writer. [The poems] fit in no school, are not summable up, have more wit and candor and sheer nerve than a dozen others. [The] comic turns scour our pretensions; some of the poems are harrowing, always revelatory, incredibly smart, and finally cathartic." -- Eleanor Wilner
"The poems seem both vast and focused or intimate… ‘There’s nothing special about being a poet,’ the poet says, but there’s lots special about poetry that’s alert to the secret vibrations of contemporary life… These terrifying and glorious poems brim with proof of the powers of the poet’s transfiguring imagination." -- Henri Cole
"A beautifully readable book. Intelligence permeates each phrase; [Hammond’s] language is alive to corruptions and multiplicities of sense… Her wit is an instrument of moral intelligence." -- Rosanna Warren
