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Rift, the third collection from poet and psychologist Forrest Hamer, engages hauntingly with separations and reconciliations that are both personal and socio-historical. Hamer draws on his American experience-including his youth in Goldsboro, North Carolina-and his African heritage-including the tragic conflicts between Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda-to investigate memories, stories, and the way in which a poem is a hopeful body. Yusef Kumunyakaa has described Hamer's poems as calls into our modern wilderness that demand heartfelt responses, and Al Young compares them to a Robert Johnson blues or a Thelonious Monk ballad; [they] linger in the blood long after they enter the inner eye and ear.

Rift Poems

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      Publisher: Four Way Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/1/2007
      ISBN13: 9781884800757, 978-1884800757
      ISBN10: 1884800750

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      Book Synopsis
      Rift, the third collection from poet and psychologist Forrest Hamer, engages hauntingly with separations and reconciliations that are both personal and socio-historical. Hamer draws on his American experience-including his youth in Goldsboro, North Carolina-and his African heritage-including the tragic conflicts between Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda-to investigate memories, stories, and the way in which a poem is a hopeful body. Yusef Kumunyakaa has described Hamer's poems as calls into our modern wilderness that demand heartfelt responses, and Al Young compares them to a Robert Johnson blues or a Thelonious Monk ballad; [they] linger in the blood long after they enter the inner eye and ear.

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