A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder Alfred Starr Hamilton and absurdities of making art

and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking

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John Berryman's The Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest

A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder Alfred Starr Hamilton and absurdities of making artBrynja Hjlmsdttir (trans. Rachel Britton) In A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder, written by contemporary Icelandic poet Brynja Hjlmsdttir and translated by Rachel Britton, one woman lives in a glass ball that is being shaken by someone else. This book of poems, however, is always shaking itself up, leaping between the extreme and the daily, the gross and the delicious, between being scared and being scary. These surreal, visceral, and somehow polite