Poetry. "How possibly can we reconcile the quotidian in our lives with the increasingly dire environmental destruction? Ignore it? Climb a tree and sit? How about mediating between these seemingly disjunctive realities via prose poems involving both extinct species and daily life, written directly and with utmost sincerity? Sometimes poetry hitched to something bigger is not only necessary but a success, and this book's an example. Hamill has a keen way with words and emotions. The sense of loss and her relationship to it seems very, very true"--Steven Fama.

Author Hometown: SANTA ROSA, CA USA



About the author: 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.