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Entering History

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Description for Entering History Hardcover. Lyrical narratives that chronicle a long marriage, rich with wit, dark irony, and poignancy. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 250.

In her long-awaited second volume, Mary Stewart Hammond chronicles a long marriage with sharp wit, dark irony, and poignancy. As James Merrill says of Hammond’s poems, they “brim with what the whole world knows.”

Entering History opens on a middle-aged couple, modern-day travelers in an ancient setting. The collection follows their relationship through time and place, combining the personal and the historical in stories of the family—siblings, a daughter, and the very different marriage of the poet’s parents.

The marriage poems share the intimacy, erotic playfulness, irritations, worries, and angers that are part of an enduring love and a long ... Read more

“Lines composed at Beaufort, South Carolina, a few miles above Parris Island,” about the poet’s brother, moves back and forth between the Civil War and the preparations of troops for today’s wars. In “Jacob and Esau with Sister,” two brothers, in a transaction as old as oral history, highlight its consequences in the twenty-first century. “Anniversary” is a heartbreaking elegy for a third brother who kills himself.

Hammond reaches into the past and present of the American family, closing Entering History where it began, with the couple in bed, now older, harkening back to the bed they shared when they were newlyweds. These powerful, beautifully crafted, lyrical narratives give depth to an examination of life—its joys, sorrows, laughter, and tragedies.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393253962
SKU
V9780393253962
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About Mary Stewart Hammond
Mary Stewart Hammond’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, the Kenyon Review, the Paris Review, the Yale Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She is the author of the collections Out of Canaan and Entering History. Hammond lives in New York City.

Reviews for Entering History
"I’ve read, loved, admired, enjoyed, and was generally knocked out by Entering History. [Hammond] is sui generis as a writer. [The poems] fit in no school, are not summable up, have more wit and candor and sheer nerve than a dozen others. [The] comic turns scour our pretensions; some of the poems are harrowing, always revelatory, incredibly smart, and finally ... Read more

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