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Out of Canaan: Poems
"In Out of Canaan, her stunning first book of poems, Hammond evokes the poignant history of four generations of her Southern family. The reader is immediately attracted by the sheer sparkle and vitality of the language."--Library Journal
- GenresPoetry
112 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1991
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July 25, 2017
Good poetry. Real nostalgic. The first half of the book reeked of NEPA, although Hammond is apparently from Virgina. Mountains is mountains, I guess. Those poems dealt with her childhood, and a lot of them resonated with my own. The second half of the book, Exile, dealt with death in the forms of suicide and cancer. I'm not a big poetry guy, but they were well-worded and they all hurt.
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