Barbara Hamby’s Holoholo, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Barbara Hamby Holoholo University of Pittsburgh Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi How to describe a book as filled with delights as Barbara Hamby’s Holoholo. Ostensibly a book of odes, these are not just poems of praise; she urges her readers to construe the term “ode” in the widest possible sense: as a “poetic stance, a poetic […]
Barbara Hamby’s Bird Odyssey, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Barbara Hamby Bird Odyssey University of Pittsburgh Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi Barbara Hamby may be contemporary poetry’s most personable tour guide. In Bird Odyssey, her sixth and latest volume of poetry, she takes us on three separate trips – through Russia, the Deep South, and Classical Greece – all of them informed by her promiscuous […]
