Poetry. The poems in Meg Hamill's DEATH NOTICES take the form of obituaries mourning lives that have been lost in the current War in Iraq. Attempting to exclude no group from this public display of grief, alongside obituaries for Iraqi civilians and Iraqi Police, there are obituaries for American soldiers, suicide bombers, and contractors for Halliburton. DEATH NOTICES repeatedly strives to rise above blame and judgment, until the project becomes simply an effort to "sustain our gaze" long enough in order to feel all of these losses fully.

Author City: SANTA ROSA, CA USA

Meg Hamill received her MFA from Mills College in 2005. Her acclaimed first book, DEATH NOTICES, was published in 2007 by Factory School Press. Her second book, TRILLIONS & TRILLIONS OF HEARTBEATS was published in 2008. Meg grew up in Maine but currently lives in Santa Rosa, California, where she works as a writer and teaches with California Poets in the Schools.