Böcker av Barbara Hamby

Poems navigate the American chaos of wars, street violence, apocalyptic fantasies, and racial tension.

""Lester Higata knew his life was about to end when he walked out on the lanai behind his house in Makiki and saw his long-dead father sitting in a lawn chair near the little greenhouse where Lester kept his orchids."" Thus begins Barbara Hamby's magical narrative of the life of a Japanese American man in Honolulu.

Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images, and scenes that are at once unique and immediately recognizable.