Body Rain

by Eaton Hamilton, J.A. Hamilton (Writing As)

LGBT studies. Poetry. Lesbian. Queer. Gay.

In Jane Eaton Hamilton's poems blood is red, black hearts are black. There is no flinching from things as bad as they can be, especially but not only for women. And yet, this passionate powerful writing radiates affirmation. "This good o, good old world" is livable still in acts of pure verbal magic.

"Jane Eaton Hamilton is not a poet content to whisper in your ear or take you on slow walks through pretty fields. She sits you down in her hardest chair, litters tacks on the floor about your naked feet, and holds you there petrified but alert as she speaks the body's news." - Leon Rooke

SHORTLISTED for the 1991 Pat Lowther Memorial Award for best book of poetry written by a woman in the previous year
"Does not read like a first book of poems."--Canadian Literature

"We are moved and astonished that a first book of poems can exhibit such vitality and confidence"--Event

"Hamilton displays an impressive range in style and tone. There are moments of unbearable beauty."--Whig Standard

"Throughout there are good lines, strong metaphors, a high level of skill."--Toronto Star

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Eaton Hamilton is the queer disabled Canadian author of ten books (incl 2 chapbooks) of short fiction, poetry and memoir. They are non-binary, go by "Hamlton" and are legally " Eaton Hamilton." Their novel ,‘Weekend,' called a "tour de force" by the Vancouver Sun, appeared in 2016. Their memoir ‘Mondays are Yellow, Sundays are Grey,’ retitled ‘No More Hurt,’ was a Sunday Times bestseller (UK) and included on the Guardian's Best Books of the Year list. Their books have been shortlisted for the MIND Book Award, the BC Book Prize, the VanCity Award, the Pat Lowther Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award. They are the two-time winner of Canada's CBC Canada Writes Award for fiction (2003/2014). Their work is included in The Journey Prize Anthology, Best Canadian Short Stories, Best Canadian Poetry and was a Notable in BASS and6 times a Notable in BAE. Words in Salon, NYT, Gay Mag, Seventeen, The Rumpus, The Sun, Guernica, LARB, Medium, and many others. They edit for Many Gendered Mothers. They live near Vancouver.

Jessica's Elevator, children's
Body Rain, poetry
July Nights and Other Stories, short fiction
Steam-Cleaning Love, poetry
Mondays are Yellow/No More Hurt, memoir
Going Santa Fe, poetry chapbook
Hunger, short fiction
Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes, poetry
Weekend, novel
Would You Like Some Gramma On That?, fiction chapbook