“I would rather leap than sit and be looked at” —Rita Dove, written of Beethoven Beethoven bowed at their applause, hearing nothing. All too soon our eyes dim, and our ears no longer startle to the raucous din. Escape into landscape racing past car windows may become the dream, to really see the lacy stitches […]
Carol Hamilton
Carol Hamilton’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Commonweal, Bluestem, Southwestern American Literature, and elsewhere. She has published seventeen books, including children's novels, legends, and poetry. Her most recent book is Such Deaths. She is a former poet laureate of Oklahoma.