A Dark Dreamboat of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton

There is not so much needed to say. This is a very mysterious book alive with shy beauties and awkwardly new-born ways of seeing As Ben Estes and Alan Felsenthal say in their introduction:"prepare to enter a house of metaphor, where life is a poem and in it there is always more to be discovered. Hamilton's is an extremely gentle language cultured in loneliness, the product of encountering a world while staying away from it. His poem is miraculous in its humility, inviting as ever, and filled with warmth and concern for its readers."Here are two poems:VINELIKEeven a green leafturned and toiledand said to the twigthat turned to the trunkat length that pulled at the living roots of the matterthat pulled and toiled to the end of its vinelike travels.*SUNBURSTI was urgedI couldn't say noI didn't say noIt was stronger than myselfI was going to do what girls doI was going to be a beautiful nurseI flowed with the sunburst on the classroom windowI tied a ribbon in my long brown hairI began my life's ambitionI began my soul.

Poetry you don't have to get a headache to understand.You don't always have to guess, but it is still not mundane.The words are still beyond the ordinary. It is deceptively simple like how an Olympian makes it look so easy.

brilliant poet - i am lucky to have discovered him - do not miss - buy this book

Wonderful reading of a poet that worked outside the circles. And why not.....some of his poems stand above the rest.

Lovely! From beginning to end!