Poetry. Bob Hamblin doesn't miss much of importance, whether he actually remembers it or makes it up, like any poet, to fill the gaps that memory can't reach. These strong, evocative poems will reach those gaps in our memories, too, make us whole by removing the screens which often keep us from remembering what we saw, from seeing what we remember. These poems are clear-eyed and moving.

Author City: Cape Girardeau, MO USA

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Robert Hamblin was born in Jericho, Mississippi, in 1938. He holds undergraduate degrees from Northeast Mississippi Community College and Delta State University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi. A professor of English, as well as director of the Center for Faulkner Studies, at Southeast Missouri State University, in Cape Girardeau, he started his teaching career as a high school English teacher and baseball coach in Baltimore, Maryland. He has also taught and lectured in England, the Netherlands, China, and Japan. Hamblin serves as associate editor of The Cape Rock and was poetry editor for Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature from 1984 to 2005. His books of poems include CROSSROADS: POEMS OF A MISSISSIPPI CHILDHOOD, KEEPING SCORE: SPORTS POEMS FOR EVERY SEASON, and and Mind the Gap: Poems by an American in London.